How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

Dad paused and in a serious tone replied, “Sister, I believe you had too much pizza before you went to bed.” I recall a selfacclaimed dream interpreter interpreting the dreams that people phoned in. From a purely biblical standpoint, most of the dreams made no sense. Yet the person in charge made every dream a spiritual revelation and had the most elaborate system for interpretation that I had heard. However, the colors he used were totally opposite of the biblical patterns, and at that point I realized he was stretching the meanings in order to provide some form of comment for each caller. In a spiritual dream that is meant as a warning, it is common to see serpents, wolves, tares, dark clouds, hurricanes, fish, churches, and other symbols that are used in the Bible. THE EFFECTS OF A SPIRITUAL DREAM When the king of Babylon arose from his dream of the metallic image, we read:

Now in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was so troubled that his sleep left him. —D ANIEL 2:1

During my many years of ministry, one common factor in any warning or instructional dream from the Lord was the fact that after waking up, I could not go back to sleep. The dream continually remained with me for days, weeks, and months. A