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Whatever puzzles and challenges come at you in life, dreaming offers answers.
I have been praying for an insight into a scientific unknown. This general prayer received a response last night, the third night of this goal.
After some other events, I find myself in the home of a young woman. She reclines on a couch. She has an unusual instrument. It has eight sides. Material is stretched across it. On this are silvery-shiny circles, which seem like sequins, but are likely something else.
She plays music on this. Then, she says she can do something others cannot. "Can you do this?" she asks. She puts her index fingers beneath the instrument, and pushes the material up, forming two thin cones the length of her fingers. Then, she crosses them, as if tying two shoe laces. She manages to pass them under each other (at least one passes under the other, anyway- I see that begin to happen). This concludes in them being tied together. "My mother does not believe I can do this," she tells me.
For some reason, I cannot see how it is concluded. She shows me again, but I cannot do it.
I look down in my hands, and see I have some papers. These are torn from a book of math puzzles. At least one page is cut vertically, and then torn horizontally so that a square section from the lower right of the page is missing. (See sketch.) About a third of the page is missing.
A Chinese man, with some gray hair, is in the room. It is he who sent the puzzles. We talk about this. In this brief Q &A, I take a strip of paper and curve it back toward itself, as in forming a bow. (See sketch.)
What has to be done is to cause the end to double back, and pass through the hole, or 'tunnel' just created by the strip.
A turn represents a change. The following post describes a dream received by a man using oxygen. It was posted on watchmanscry in the previously mentioned thread about the effects of oxygen on dream recall.
Oh ... I forgot to mention this. I delivered some O2 to a man yesterday and asked him if oxygen had affected his dreams. He said that it had in a big way and he described the following dream to me:
He and his ex-wife found themselves on the California coast. All of a sudden a great sunami began heading their way. They hopped into his old clunker car and drove as fast as they could but the tidal wave kept closing in on them. He made a sharp turn to avoid the wave but it kept closing in on him. Finally, they jumped out of the car and hid behind a big tree which protected them.
It's pretty easy to see the meaning of that dream and I told him what I believed the message was. I don't usually do a lot of witnessing while on the job because my secular company frowns upon such things but I couldn't help it in this instance. He thanked me for my interpretation.
The sunami is the coming tribulation. The big tree is Jesus Christ
First, I agree with the interpretation given by ActionJackson in his post. A "turn" means a sudden change in life perspective. Think about it, when a person turns, what they are looking at now is completely different. Their journey will take them to an entirely different place.
Here is another dream I read many years ago. An old woman who was lonely dreamed she was walking along a normal landscape. There was a simple path through this park. Green grass and trees lined the sides of the path.
Then, in her dream, she took a sudden ninety degree turn. She saw beautiful flowers, a bright sunny day broke out. She said she was amazing happy. Her analyst correctly predicted this foretold her death. And, in fact, she passed a few months later. She went to a happier place.
DREAM ABOUT THE MEANING OF A TURN AND THE MEANING OF RAIN
In early 1994, I was dreaming every night, and recording the dreams. One night I dreamed this:
I listen to a teacher. I do not see him. "Rain", he said, "signifies a change. Each year, as the spring rains come, they bring new life. When the Mississippi River flooded recently, it was God cleansing the earth, to make it new. Each year when the Nile River passed it's banks, it purified the soil of Egypt to bring new life. A rain represents a change." As he explained these things, I saw simple images of what he spoke.
"Soon, in South Africa, there will be a change. In Soweto, there will be rain. In Johannesburg, there will be light showers. In Cape Town, the sun will beat down." Only a few weeks later, the first open elections took place in South Africa. Listening to NPR, I heard the announcer describe exactly the weather patterns the dream described!
But, there was more to the dream. He also told me, "A turn or a corner also represents a change." I saw a street corner, a typical sidewalk. A man walked up, paused on the corner very briefly, and turned to his right.
"Snow represents a hard change." About that time I woke. I recalled several historical examples of a "worst snow on record" coming during a hard fought military campaign. I thought of Valley Forge in the American Revolutionary War when Washington's men fought frostbite; I remembered the invasion of Nazi Germany into Russia during World War II. A record snow fall killed many Germans and helped the Russians; I remembered the Marine Corps history of the "Frozen Chosin". This battle on the Korean peninsula saw Marines from America, Australia and England, joined by US Army artillery against hundreds of thousands of North Koreans and Chinese.
Later, I also learned that the hardest winter ever on the east coast of the United States occurred during the American Civil War.
So, these three symbols in a dream represent change: rain, corner, turn
Oxygen, apparently, increases the ability of people to recall their dreams.
Here are some interesting posts from a thread on watchmanscry.com started by "ActionJackson" :
Action Jackson starts the thread with:
Howdy. I deliver oxygen to home healthcare patients. I've had a number of my customers tell me that they began remembering their dreams when they started sleeping with oxygen. Not only did they remember their dreams but their dreams were very vivid. The wife of one of my customers says that her husband even moves his whole body while dreaming.
I don't remember my dreams except on very rare occasions. Has anyone ever heard anyone else say that oxygen helps them dream or remember their dreams? I almost wish I had a prescription for oxygen but I want to be very careful what I hope for.
This is interesting! I replied with this:
I have also read somewhere that having plants in the room increases dream recall. When I heard that, my first suspicion was that the increased oxygen produced by the plants is the cause.
Also, Kent Hovind teaches that, before the flood, there was a "canopy" over the earth, and that oxygen levels were much greater at the time because of it. This caused greater health and larger plants, larger animals.
I wonder if dream recall, then, is affected by health. That makes sense.
FaithfulServant adds this testimony:
I have to admit, for years I could never remember my dreams. I was having troubles with exhaustion, and found out I had sleep apnea. Since I have been using a CPAP machine I remember many of my dreams.
So, there seems to be some evidence here that oxygen increases dream recall. I looked around for a system that would increase oxygen input. I found one here: The Zadro Oxygen bar. It claims it "Increases oxygen intake by over thirty percent". Here is a link to the Zadro:
If you buy this, LET ME KNOW how it works. Try loaning it to some friends, then ask how about their dreams. Don't front load them... mention some other benefit, along with, "You have to try this." After the agreed loan period (one week?), when retrieving it from your friend, mention one of your recent dreams briefly. Then ask, "Have you had any dreams lately?"
One way to double check our own dreams is to look at what others are reporting from the supernatural. Messages are delivered to us not only in dreams. Many people receive the same messages in visions, prayer, and even while reading the Bible (which is full of hidden messages.)
Cliff Hilbert, at watchman2009 blogspot, reports on his blog the same message I received through a dream and a post-dream prayer session about the meaning of the dream: the events in Haiti serve as a warning to the American people about what will happen. We need to know how to put our trust in God. By praying to God regularly for our needs, we will know how trust in Him when trial comes.
Read another man reporting that Haiti is a warning to the USA about what will happen when sudden disaster strikes. It seems this man received his information in prayer. With the gift of dreaming, carefully developed and submitted to the proper authority (the Kingdom of God), you too can be warned before disaster--- and be prepared!
Which is better? Does a micro-cassette recorder outperform a digital recorder in our application?
I have used both. There are pros and cons to each.
The microcassette recorder saves money. It costs less than half the price of a digital recorder. That is- at first. After you shop through the store and select your new frequent friend, you take it home and clear a place for it near your bed. Or, like me, you purchase one of two available at the Radio Shack near campus. You fill up both sides of a two-tape packet and need more micro-cassettes. Now, you need to buy more. How much cash will you shell out? Here are some thrifty choices at Amazon:
Amazon also has good choices for micro-cassette recorders. I purchased my first in 1995 for $105. Prices today are far better:
Get a big "record" button. In the night, when you first crack open your eyes and reach through the darkness to fumble for your recorder, you will barely find the snickers bar-sized recorder. When you get your mitts on it and bring it to your mouth, you will be required to perform the Olympian feat of locating a tiny button with a drunken finger. The longer you poke around, the more of your dream you will lose.
I posted a dream this morning, January 12, 2009, on the dream forum section of watchmanscry.com. It posted at 9:25 am.
The dream is copied here:
In the dream, a young man goes to a wrestling tournament with his younger brother. There is a bad person there. The young man refuses to wrestle him, then argues with the bad man about whether the bad man will wrestle the younger brother or not. Bad says, "I will." Young man says, "You will not!" But, it looks like they will wrestle for the championship.
Then, at night, there is a large earthquake. A very large hotel collapses. At the end of the shaking (a long time), another, shorter, apartment complex is burning. Fire comes from two top-floor windows.
During the shaking, the young man went to his room. He had boxes of supplies, for an emergency which he knew would come. However, in the rush to get out of the building, he only was able to grab a small portion of what he had prepared.
Last Scene: The young man and a few friends stand in the night asking each other what to do. One says, "We could sleep in the trees, but everyone is going to go there. It will not be very safe." People walk the streets with no place to go.
The point is this: People are prepared to a certain degree. But, they need to be prepared to be in a hurry.
Dream Fulfilled:
The complete destruction of hotels, as I saw in the dream is related here: Haiti Earthquake Hotel Collapse
The Hotel Montana and the Hotel Karibe both collapsed entirely. The article also explains how the people had no place to sleep, and some slept in the driveway of the Hotel Oloffson, which stood.
The scenes in this dream were very similar to the pictures of the 7.0 Haiti earthquake on the news tonight.
Here are some thoughts about the dream interpretation I offered, that people need to be better prepared.
1. That could be the entire reason I received the dream. I saw how the Haitians walked about the streets, stunned. They lacked a plan. So, for myself, I now realize that my own disaster plans do not encompass a sudden loss of quarter. We must remember the important function dreams, like intuition, can serve to warn us of impending disaster.
2. Why am I shown the storyline of the young men at the wrestling tournament? These men are typical young men with typical values. But, they were surprised. Perhaps the story of the young brothers and friends is random. If they lesson simply highlights the need for well thought out preparations, the story line of any person would have sufficed. However, I saw the story of some wrestlers. Because details almost always possess significance, I recorded the story of the boys.
Later, the story of the boys may become very important. Sometimes I fail to record something. I think, "Well, what possible importance could possibly be in this detail?" Later, I find out the detail is important in identifying the exact manifestation.
Broken bones in dreams signify loss of power or ability.
A man with a broken leg cannot stand. He cannot move forward easily. Predators easily consume animals with broken legs.
Teeth are bones, but this symbolism is more specific. See the interpretation of falling teeth/ losing teeth here: Losing teeth in a dream Broken Bone Meaning Thousands of Years Old
One of the most ancient uses of the symbolism of broken bones occurred when the god of the Hebrews, Jehovah, cursed the nation of Egypt. In the book of Ezekiel, God declared that He will remove the power of Egypt and increase the power of Babylon. Clear references identify a broken arm as a loss of power. A strengthened arm, conversely, foretells the future rise in power of Babylon.
It is interesting to note that, after this declaration, Egypt diminished in power, and remains a weak to mediocre nation to this day. Look at the once great nation of Egypt which ruled as Pharaoh pleased. Compare that to contemporary Egypt. That is the difference between a strong arm and a broken bone.
The Bible is rich in symbolism, parables, and hidden meanings. The wealth of meanings in it's pages flows out and makes the understanding come alive to those who delve into understanding. Who better knows how to communicate with the understanding of man via symbolism than man's own Creator?
The dream interpretation of a broken bone as a loss of power must certainly be considered. This meaning, like all meanings, is not absolute. However, this representation of loss of power fairly easily presents itself in a broken bone.
