My Dream Journal Analysis

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I love to journal my dreams! Countless times through the years, as I thumb through my dream journals, I see God steadily at work speaking of something to come, or giving direction and insights into current or past situations or circumstances. Simply by journaling my dreams has caused my relationship with God to go deeper, as I continue to grow and understand His parabolic dream language.

I try to read through my dream journals, at a minimum, once a year. So often, as I am reading through my dream journals, I can hear myself say outloud “Father, now I understand what it was you were telling me.” We gain insights into the ways of God speaking to us through dreams simply by writing them down. We develop our own personal dream language that is intimate …show more content…

The dream is centered and focused on what you are doing. Everywhere you go the camera is focused on you. The camera is zooming in on you. Everywhere you are the camera follows your movements and activities. If you were removed from the dream, the dream falls apart and no longer makes any sense. In this case, you are the focus of the dream.

LOOKING or WATCHING

You could be watching in a dream. In Daniel 2: 31, Daniel was explaining to Nebuchadnezzar the dream he had. He said “You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image...” Daniel went on to tell the king about what he was watching, which was a great statute. What Nebuchadnezzar was watching in the dream was the focus of the dream. The dream was about things to come symbolized by a statute. Fascinating!

This happened again to Nebuchadnezzar when he was looking and saw a tree being chopped down in a dream.
“These were the visions of my head while on my bed: I was looking, and behold, A tree in the midst of the earth, And its height was great.” (Daniel 4:10)

In this example also, what Nebuchadnezzar was looking at was the focus of his

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