The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

as a threat or as a promise. Generally, their stories comprise allegories, metaphors, and similitudes the dreamer must explore carefully to extract the truth being revealed. Amos 7:8 and 8:2. See Dream, Era, Age, and Dream Language. 420. Dream Settings—This phrase explains the prophetic importance of recognizing the era, furnishings, location, and backdrop of dreams. It is important for finer prophetic dream interpretation and revelatory insight. Dream settings take into consideration what is normal and abnormal about a dream. Something as vague as texture, grainy versus smooth, full color as opposed to black and white, and vivid clarity over blurriness can be significant to the dream’s interpretation. Walls, lighting and light fixtures all say much about what the messenger of the dream wishes to convey. Granite rather than marble, colored or design flooring, bare or carpeted flooring all speak to elements of revelation important to understanding the entire dream. See Dreams. 421. Dream Thoughts—The greatest biblical example of this is Nebuchadnezzar’s prelude to his golden image dream. The account in Daniel 3 says that he was resting on his bed about to doze off to sleep thinking about his kingdom and what would become of it after his demise. The Almighty, the Most High, used the thoughts in the way that Nebuchadnezzar knew Him to launch a prophetic episode that elevated Daniel in the kingdom of Babylon to chief of the wise men. Dream thoughts are inquiring meditations of a revelatory or predictive nature that lead to the onset of a prophetic vision. Consider as another example the dreams one has where one is aware of thinking on the subject or events of the dream while still dreaming. Or, as another case in point, being aware of dreaming and recognizing that one’s thoughts were active and somehow participating in the dream while one is still asleep. 422. Dreamer of Dreams—From Deuteronomy 13:1, 3, 5, a spiritual gifting where the majority of the individual’s supernatural experience comes through dreams. In ancient times, this was actually an official function in the courts, palaces, and temples of the land. Joseph was a prophet, but his main means of prophetic reception was dreams. His faculty distinguished itself and demonstrated its prophetic link by Joseph’s being able to interpret his dreams and those of others. While dreams are natural complements to the prophet’s mantle, this operation was often shunned as many dreamers used intoxicants to induce their dreams and thus made their disclosures from the spirit world suspect. Jehovah warned Israel