How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

THE ACT OF DREAMING There are two types of people: those who dream often and those who seldom dream. I am definitely a nightly dreamer, and my wife seldom, if ever, dreams—or if she does, she doesn’t remember the content. At some point all people will experience a dream. Most dreams are a visual mental screen that moves from scene to scene while we sleep. Very few dreams can actually be classified as a spiritual dream, although there have been noted psychologists and researchers who believe every dream may have some type of a hidden meaning through the symbolism. When believers begin experiencing dreams that hold a cryptic or hidden warning and message, the act of dreaming can be applied to three different categories. First is the occasional dream that has an important message. As stated, I dream continually throughout the night, but my lovely wife, Pam, seldom dreams. However, if she tells you she had a strange dream, the probability is about nine out of ten that her dream is a message or a particular warning. The second category relates to dreamers who have a natural gift for seeing future events, which is quite unexplainable. Among the ancient prophetic empires—Egypt, Babylon, Persia, and Greece—when the ruling kings had a troubling dream, they assembled the “wise men” or “seers” from their kingdom to interpret the meaning or give instructions (Gen. 41:8; Dan. 2:2). In most instances these men had a particular gift of wisdom and understanding, even though many if not all were