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Dreams as Warnings and Instruction
Neville teaches that dreams, especially terrifying nightmares, are divine warnings and instructions. They are dramatic rearrangements of one's daily thoughts…
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The Value Of Dreams
In Job, he speaks of two types. The first is a dream and then a vision of the night. “And there He will open the ears of men and frighten them with warnings.” I do not have to fall asleep here to dream. The nightmare is the rearrangement of the day dreams. They are rearranged dramatically and presented to me, and if my purpose is faulty it terrifies me with a warning. He speaks to man in a dream, in a vision of the night.” He does it that we may change our purpose and change our deeds, for if night after night my daily thoughts are rearranged in my night dreams so that they terrify me, then what am I doing that it should be so? For night after night, He dramatizes my day, but not in chronological order. He takes the whole day and dramatizes it, and if it not pleasant, it will terrify me to get me to turn from my deeds and my thinking and rearrange the furnishing of my mind and come to the point where I can wrestle with this being (my inner self) as Jacob did and get a new name, so that my day dream can then be project at night just as I dreamed it during the day.
Neville teaches that dreams, especially terrifying nightmares, are divine warnings and instructions. They are dramatic rearrangements of one's daily thoughts and assumptions, designed to reveal faulty inner purposes and prompt a change in one's thinking and deeds.