hi all?

bigeee

guys i had a dream last night then i just woke up.. it was when the priest was saying kery lay son could this mean anything? i have been praying alot more latley and i have been sinning but i feel like i am getting closer with god sorry for te spelling any advice or thoughts thanks?

bigeee

and also in the dream i had a kid in it with blonde hair it was so weird

sodr2

just a religious dream, doesnt mean anything

peterfarrington

It is best not to put any trust in dreams. We can either deceive ourselves easily or spend a lot of time worrying unnecessarily.

Generally we know what we need to do to find salvation and just need to get on with it with God's grace.

Father Peter

AikotiEnsok

i once dreamed i was the pope, that DEFINATELY does not mean ANYTHING knowing me.

mabsoota

:D
ha ha!
i have silly dreams too! i haven't been the pope yet (i think a female one is really unlikely) but i have done great things in my dreams. it just means i have too much pride  ;)
i think praying more before sleep is the answer to having strange dreams.

jojo204

+The following is from "Practical Spirituality According to the desert fathers-by FATHER ATHANASIUS ISKANDER" on pages 41-43 http://www.stmaryscopticorthodox.ca/content/books/spirituality.pdf

6. False revelation, visions, dreams:
In order to confirm you in your delusion, the devil can sometimes
make you “know things” before they happen! , or know the thoughts of
people!
How can the devil do this? Very easy! He knows that your grand
mother in Egypt is dying, so he puts the thought in your mind. You call
Egypt and they tell you indeed that she is very ill. If you believe this, he
will keep on telling you things in order to convince you that God is
favouring you by these revelations, and fill you with the deadly sins of
pride and self righteousness.
John Climacus tells us that the devil can implant a thought in
someone’s mind and reveal it to another to give him the illusion that he
can read people’s minds! Where do you think all those “Psychics” get
their knowledge? From the devil. Actually most “Psychics” are really
people possessed by demons.
Three monks were having “revelations” and they were arguing
among themselves whether these revelations are from God or from the
devil. They decided to go to Saint Antony the Great to ask him about
these. While on the way to Saint Antony, the donkey they had with
them died. They resumed their journey and when they reached Saint
Antony, he told them, “Too bad that your donkey died!” They asked
him, “How did you know about the donkey?” He told them, “The devil
told me!” They told him, “You answered our question before we asked
you.”
Some people have visions of saints or angels. One has to be very
careful before accepting these, because the devil can imitate these in
order to ruin your spiritual life. The history of the desert Fathers is
filled with horror stories about people who accepted these visions
without discerning whether they are from God or from the devil.
One of these stories is the story of Heron, a monk that spent 50
years in ascetism and was brought to ruin by a false angel that appeared
to him for a long time. He stopped going to church, and refused the
advice of the other monks, who advised him to tell the Abbot about
this. In the end the “angel” convinced him that he was going to be taken
alive to heaven like Elijah. The poor man went to say goodbye to his
fellow monks, who tried in vain to convince him that this is the devil,
but he would not listen. The “angel” took him to a mountain and
convinced him to jump, and of course he fell to his death. The Abbot
would not allow the psalms to be chanted for him. He considered him
as one who committed suicide.
Another “angel” appeared to another monk for three years. The cell
in which he lived was shining with the light of the “angel”, so that he did
not need to light any candles! After three years, the “angel” gave him
a vision of “Paradise” showing him the Jews sitting in the bosom of
Abraham, while the Christians were being tortured in Hades, He left
Christianity and became a Jew.
There were wiser monks though. To one “Gabriel” appeared with a
message from God! He told him, “You must have come to the wrong
cell, for I am a sinner unworthy of revelations, but the monk next door
is a saintly man.” “Gabriel” disappeared in smoke!
To another monk “The Lord” appeared and told him to worship
him, but he said, “I don’t want to see the Lord on earth, I want to see
him in heaven.” Again, the false “Lord” disappeared in smoke.
Now these are things that happened to monks centuries ago, but the
devil is still using the same techniques even today, with great success.
Many years ago, I noticed that one of the servants has stopped
coming to church and having communion for a long time and I decided
to visit him and ask him about the reason for this. He simply told me,
“Pope Kyrillos appears to me every Sunday and gives me communion!”
Another servant from out of town, told me that something was
bothering his conscience. Since I was not his Father in confession, I
advised him to confess to his own Father in confession. The next
morning he called to tell me that “Pope Kyrillos” came to him in a
dream, asked him to confess, then gave him the absolution. He asked
me if this is good enough, but I told him, I still suggest very strongly,
that you go and confess to your Father in confession, and tell him about
this dream.
[b]There are true apparitions, but there are also false apparitions, in
the same way that there is real money and there is counterfeit money.
And the proper way to handle revelations, apparitions and dreams, is
to consult with your Father in confession.
A spiritual person will always deem him/herself unworthy of these
revelations. Dreams are totally under the control of the devil. God
spoke to certain people through dreams, but these can be counted on
the fingers and they were saints and prophets, not sinners like us. We
should not give much weight to dreams. Saint Antony once said, “He
who believes in dreams is the toy of the demons.”[/b]