Dreams.....

"The Bible, as well as other great books of historical and revealed religion, shows traces of a general and substantial belief in dreams. Joseph saw eleven stars of the Zodiac bow to himself, the twelfth star. The fame of Egypt was revealed by a vision of fat and lean cattle. The parents of the Messiah were warned of the cruel edict of Herod, and fled with the Divine Child into Egypt.

Pilate's wife, through the influence of a dream, advised her husband to have nothing to do with the conviction of the Messiah. But the gross materialism of the day laughed at dreams, as it echoed the voice and verdict of the multitude, 'Crucify the Spirit, but let the flesh live.' Barabbas, the robber, was set at liberty.

If Julius Caesar had been less incredulous about dreams he would have listened to the warning which Calpurnia, his wife, received in a dream.

Plato concurred in the general idea prevailing in his day, that there were divine manifestations to the soul in sleep. Condorcet thought and wrote with greater fluency in his dreams than in waking life.

People dream now, the same as they did in medieval and ancient times."

- Dr. Brian R. Metcalfe

My dreams (especially when I dream at dawn) usually do come true. Coincidence? They warn me that something will happen that's why I make it a point to relay them to my husband or a close friend. In a dream, I saw my mother in a mirror wearing a purple veil walking in front of me. Days passed after that dream, when for real my sister told me my mother had an allergy starting from her neck, ears and up to her face. Since then, she was always wearing colored veil to cover her face. I saw my three uncles standing inside three bedrooms when I opened three different doors. The three of them died in the order that I saw them in my dream on three different dates. Dreams do warn me that somebody will get sick when I dream of this person wading in muddy waters. Again in a dream, my husband was trapped in a swampy water and I tried to rescue him. The following day, he had a mild heart attack and had to be treated three days in a hospital. My dream did warn me that my mom would get sick one day after seeing her standing on a deep cloudy pool. So many , many dreams I can no longer recall but I believe they do caution me of events that will certainly happen in the future. "In the last days, the Almighty says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. (Acts 2:17)