How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

M any years ago in the days of cassette tapes, I taught a two tape series simply called, “The Lust of the Flesh.” My wife would tell me, “When people are at the resource table, looking over the cassette tape albums, you should see how they react to that album. When purchasing it, they turn it over so no one can see the title! It’s like they are embarrassed for someone near them to think, ‘Wow, are they having trouble with the lust of the flesh?’” The same is true when it comes to nightmares and dirty dreams. A person may tell you about a nightmare or a dream with frightening imagery, but there are some types of dreams no one wants to talk about. People need instruction about that, something I call dirty dreaming . At times a person will experience dreams that would be considered vile or violent . In a dream a person may see a violent attacker, a thief, or a dangerous character who is attempting to harm him or a family member. These negative nightly apparitions have that individual participating in them like an actor on a stage, causing his blood pressure to rise and heart rate to increase while he is sleeping. Some people awaken and are breathing heavy. Such a dream is often called a nightmare , although the word has nothing to do with a female horse called a mare . It is said to have originated in the 1300s as nigt-mare, a female spirit that attempted to afflict a sleeper with the feeling of suffocating at night. The word was also used throughout parts of Europe and was eventually linked with an incubus spirit , which caused people to have bad dreams. By the year 1829, it became a common word to describe a bad dream.1