What Does This Crazy Dream Mean?

Post by Dennis

Do you ever have a crazy dream? Are your dreams in color? Do your dreams make any sense? Do your dreams have a meaning? My answers are: Yes, I have crazy dreams all the time. My dreams are always in vivid color, and sometimes they don’t make much sense. Other times though, I can see some meaning or at least a relevance to people, and or the events of my past or present life. Most of my dreams are fragmented, short clips like a movie preview, but a few play out like the entire movie.

Dream Like a Movie

Having one of those “Movie” dreams a couple of nights ago and not being able to get it off my mind inspired me to write about dreams and share a condensed version of my “movie dream” for you here. Facts to know first: Liz was my wife of 48 years, who passed 8 years ago. Judy was Liz’s closest friend since grade school, who passed a year before Liz. Neither of them ever owned or rode motorcycles. Our families and lives were intertwined almost as one family. We bought, sold, and re-modeled many homes over the years.

I woke up one morning to find that Liz and Judy had torn out the cabinets and most of the walls in the house, saying they were “re-modeling this old place.” I got very angry, screaming, “I don’t have the money to pay for re-modeling!” Liz said, “I don’t need your money; we have plenty of money.” A windstorm came up and blew the house down because most of the walls were gone.

For some reason, Liz and Judy had motorcycles. Liz told me to get on the motorcycle behind her and screamed, “We need to get out of here!” To which I screamed above the loud motors and wind, “You don’t know how to ride a motorcycle” She yelled, “Just get on dam#t” So, I jumped on, and we were off and flying! When we finally burst out of the storm at breakneck speed and stopped, we were staring down a very high and very steep hill.

Liz and Judy were revving up the motorcycle engines, and I was screaming, “It’s too steep!” We shot down the hill. It turned out the hill was too steep because we crashed at the bottom.

The “Rumble”

We were fine, but the wheels on the motorcycles were all bent up. Across the road was a garage attached to a bar, which had motorcycles parked out front. The mechanic at the garage, who was a large woman, said she could replace the wheels on our motorcycles, so we went into the bar to wait. The bar was full of a rough, loud motorcycle gang, but we sat at the bar anyway. Soon, the large mechanic came and said our motorcycles were ready.

We saw she had put bright green wheels on them. Liz and Judy were furious about the cost of the green wheels and ended up fighting with the mechanic inside the bar. Liz was on her shoulders, pulling her hair while Judy and the woman were trading punches. I was trying to get Liz down off her when several of the men grabbed and dragged me around the floor while kicking me.

Somehow, we were then outside and climbed on the motorcycles with green wheels. All the people from the bar were outside firing green arrows at us as we sped away. One of the arrows hit me in the back, and I woke up.

A dream like that, so vivid and detailed, was pretty rare for me, and when I got out of bed, I caught myself scanning the house just to make sure everything was still okay.

Is This Dream a Message?

I could not stop thinking about that dream. For days, it was almost constantly on my mind, to the point of interfering with my daily activities. I couldn’t play my guitar through a song without losing track along the way. Nor could I read or write anything because I just could not concentrate. The dream had to mean something. So, being a man of faith and a Christian, I knew where to begin.

One of my favorite people in the Bible, Daniel, was famous for his ability to interpret dreams when other wise men could not. The most famous was King Nebuchadnezzar’s (what a name) his dream about a giant statue representing world empires and the eternal kingdom of God. Scripture gives many examples of God communicating through dreams. I believe that a dream could be a message from God as long as it’s tested with His word, glorifies Him, and encourages spiritual growth.

Most faiths recognize that dreams can sometimes have meaning deeper than just a figment of the imagination.

Some Common Themes Across Religions

Dreams use symbols and metaphors to convey spiritual messages, requiring interpretation. Dreams bridge the inner self (mind, desires) with the outer spiritual reality, showing a person’s state or connecting them with the divine. (AI Search)

My Interpretation of the Dream

Liz had a gift. (She called it a curse.) because she did not want the thoughts or feelings that came to her. She sometimes knew something was about to happen or knew when one of our kids had skipped school. She could sometimes see an aura around a person, and the colors meant different things to her. If she said, “Don’t get on the plane, don’t get on the plane”, those sorts of things. I think we all have a bit of that gift/curse when we are born to a certain extent. It may get squashed as we grow, ignore it, and push it away.

I am now being comforted by this dream. I am being shown that love continues, even after death. I don’t have to worry that our short life here on earth, “only as long as a whisp of smoke” (as the Bible says), is all there is for the faithful. My wife Liz is waiting for me, with her bright, youthful, spirited self.

The remodeling, storm, crash, and fighting tell me that we will have a new life even after hardship and destruction. I felt the green wheels and arrows must be important, so it was part of my research. Green represents good, compassion, love, healing, and harmony. Maybe the green arrow in my back lets me know that death is not as scary as we think.

Liz and Judy always stood up for each other, just as they were doing in that bar. Maybe the dream shows me they are still together. Maybe they are waiting for all of their loved ones to have more of the many joyful parties that our families had together.

Ask, Seek, Knock

7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Matt. 7:7-8

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