Interpreting dreams from God

The ultimate guide to interpreting dreams from God, using biblical principles of dream interpretation, within the context of a personal relationship with God.

This page is a comprehensive overview of the process of interpreting God dreams and knowing God personally through your nightly dream messages – from beginners to advanced!

It contains links to all the articles in this blog, organised into a logical order for finding them easily and for working through systematically. If used in this way, these articles can serve as a free biblical dream interpretation course for Christians.

This is a Christian dream interpretation method, and includes foundations for dreaming with God safely, how God speaks through dreams and visions, how to interpret dreams from God and find their meaning, how to practically journal, record, and organise your dreams, how to review your dreams and learn from them, PLUS all of this explained within the bigger picture of hearing God’s voice, and knowing God personally.

4-stage process for interpreting dreams from God

As a follower of Jesus Christ for over 40 years, I have devoted myself to learning to hear God’s voice. I have read and studied the bible most days – and for the past 15 years have learned to interpret my own dreams from God under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

My journey has taken a long time and I have made many mistakes along the way. My hope is that this page and the dream method it contains will speed up the process for you and help you avoid the pitfalls!

I have organized the process of interpreting dreams from God into four stages:

1. Get READY to dream by putting in good foundations
2. Make a plan to RECORD and work on your dreams
3. REFLECT on your dreams and learn to interpret them
4. REVIEW your dreams to learn and adjust your understanding

I recommend working through each of these four stages in order, reading the relevant articles and putting them into practice as you go.

The fourth section on reviewing dreams is vital if you want to grow as a dream interpreter, so if you really want to find your true God dream meanings, don’t miss out that final stage!

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Stage 1: Get READY to dream

Before you even start to interpret your dreams from God, it is important to put some proper biblical and spiritual foundations in place, and settle any questions or doubts that you have. This will help keep you on the right path as you continue with the process.

Learning to interpret God dreams will inevitably involve lifestyle changes and some time investment. Therefore, this is a good opportunity to count the cost, and decide whether it is worth making that journey.

At this stage it is important to:

• Reassure yourself that dream interpretation is biblical.
• Make sure your spiritual foundations for dreaming are solid.
• Decide that dreams are worth your time and effort.

Reassure yourself that dream interpretation is biblical

The following articles provide a good background into dreams in the bible and biblical principles of dream interpretation:

Make sure you have solid spiritual foundations for dreaming

This is the time to make sure your foundations are in place for making your dream journey. This includes getting some foundational dream interpretation teaching, and tending to your spiritual foundations, so your dream spirituality is solid.

In addition to the resources and articles in my own blog, you could check out this page which has a summary of my favourite tools and resources available from other Christian ministries, including biblical dream interpretation books and courses. Plus you might like my gift ideas for dreamers.

MY FAVOURITE DREAM RESOURCES >>

It is also time to deal with any foundational mindsets that may hinder your dream journey. A big one that I find common is thinking you need a special gift to interpret dreams. You don’t! You just need to be humble, teachable, and have a desire to walk in relationship with God.

Decide that dreams are worth your time and effort

The following are general articles from my story that might hopefully inspire you to make your own journey of interpreting dreams from God.

Stage 2: Make a plan to RECORD your dreams

Once you have decided that you want to take your dreams seriously and understand your God dream meanings, the next stage is to make a practical plan ro record your dreams.

Not only do you have to plan to remember your dreams and record or write them down in some way, but you also have to make time for praying about them, researching and storing them.

At this stage it is important to:

• Prepare yourself at bedtime for dreaming
• Make plans to remember and write down or record your dreams
• Plan time for working on your dreams

Prepare yourself at bedtime for dreaming

It is important to be expectant at bedtime and go to sleep with a healthy attitude and spirit. This section includes articles on bedtime affirmations and preparation for dreaming.

Plus, there are ideas to consider if you find you are suddenly not remembering your dreams anymore.

The following infographics contain ideas which can help with bedtime affirmations, and with generally preparing your heart, mind, and spirit for receiving dreams from God.

Make plans to remember and record your dreams

It is also vital to have a plan for recording your dreams – and to put practical provisions in place for doing it. This could be by writing them down or making an audio recording. If you don’t make a plan before you go to sleep, it won’t happen!

Also, prepare yourself for getting up in the night to record your God dreams if necessary, such as having a warm top or blanket to hand if you live in a cold climate.

In addition, you need to plan to record the RIGHT information that you will need later, otherwise it can be frustrating when you come to interpret your dream.

Download my dream journal templates for FREE >>

I have a downloadable dream journal template that you can use when you first start out. This will help you record the right information that will be essential when you try to interpret your dreams from God later.

Plan time for working on your dreams

Finally in this section, make a plan for when you are going to interpret your dreams from God – which includes thinking and praying about them. It may take a little creativity and life adjustment to make time for this, particularly when you are busy!

Consider including dream work as part of your regular/daily time alone with God. Treating dreams and dream spirituality as an important spiritual discipline can make a big difference to your success.

Stage 3: REFLECT on your dreams and interpret them

Once you have some dreams recorded – and have assigned time for thinking and praying about them, it is time to start the dream interpretation process – and have a go at interpreting some of your God dreams!

The biggest mistake I see with dreams is trying to interpret them too literally. Most dreams are not literal, and learning to interpret them is like learning a whole new language.

Dreams are like parables; they are metaphorical illustrations that speak messages about situations in your life. It takes time and practice to become familiar with the language and dream symbols, and the ways God speaks to you personally.

At this stage it is important to:

• Learn about symbolic language and dream symbols
• Develop your dream interpretation method
• Know how to approach your own dreams

Learn about symbolic language and dream symbols

Interpreting your dreams from God means understanding God’s pictorial and metaphorical language. The following articles provide an introduction to symbolic language and why God speaks in this way.

A key element of the dream interpretation method is understanding what the individual symbols mean. Much has been written about this subject! And you don’t necessarily need a dream dictionary if you know the type of questions to ask.

The following articles provide an overview of how to approach dream symbols when interpreting your dreams:

I have written in more detail about the common meanings of some dream symbols, with plenty of real dream examples. You can find a summary of the dream symbols covered so far at this page:

DREAM SYMBOLS >>

The following infographic summarises ten helpful things to think about for any particular dream symbol, when interpreting dreams from God:

Develop your dream interpretation method

Over time you will fine tune your own approach to understanding dreams with God. But when you first start out, it is really helpful to use an established method to get going faster and avoid common pitfalls.

I have developed an easy-to-remember 3-step dream interpretation method. This is my main dream interpretation method, which has been developed through interpreting my own God dreams over many years.

Also, if I help someone with a dream interpretation, I use this method when giving feedback so they can see how the process works.

Download my pdf ebook which I am now giving away for FREE, which summarises this dream interpretation method. It includes a printable infographic summary page >>

Ongoing dream interpretation tips

I firmly believe that you are the best person to interpret your own dreams from God, even though at first you might need a little help to get going.

But, the good news is that the God of dreams himself mentors us through the Holy Spirit, and I have found that he will even use dreams to speak to us about our dream journey. Plus, there are creative ways we can help ourselves in the process.

It is worth reading the above article on how the Holy Spirit mentors us, because it is very practical and has lots of dream example. Be on the look out for dream elements that might be about dreams. You don’t want to miss God’s guidance on this journey.

Be on the look out for dream symbols about dreams!

It is also worth creating your own personal dream dictionary, so you can remember how God has used dream elements to speak to you in previous dreams.

Managing your dreams is a long-term process. You will need to learn the ways God speaks over time, and how to respond when you don’t understand your dreams. All this comes with experience – so don’t give up!

Once you have been interpreting dreams for a while, you will find that you start to see patterns and common threads in how God speaks to you. The following articles address some things it is helpful to know.

You can now download my colouring book for FREE at the link below. These can be useful for meditation and boosting creativity for dream interpretation.

Stage 4: REVIEW your dreams and learn from them

This final stage is often missed, but doing this is the main reason I have grown as a dream interpreter over the years. Don’t miss this out!! It is vital to develop a process that enables you to learn from your old dreams.

This means taking time to review your God dream interpretations with hindsight to see whether you understood them correctly, and to compare your dream messages with what subsequently happened in real life.

You also need to know how to respond in a mature way (rather than having a meltdown – which is more common than you might think!!) when you don’t understand your dreams.

The good news is that by persevering through the frustrating patches, you are learning more about God’s heart and ways, and how he relates to you.

In this stage you need to:

• Store your dreams in an organised way
• Review your dreams and learn from them
• Understand how dreams fit into the bigger picture

Store your dreams in an organised way

It is important to put in place some practical storage mechanisms for managing your dreams as part of a long-term process. This includes keeping a master list/summary/index of dreams, with important dates and life events.

Review your dreams and learn from them

If your dreams from God are stored in an organised way, it becomes easier to review them and learn from them. This takes some planning, and means allocating some time in your schedule for reviewing them.

Understand dreams in context of the bigger picture

Once you have worked through this entire process of interpreting dreams from God for a while, you will probably find that there is an unexpected spin-off: Learning God’s symbolic language means that you start to hear God’s voice all around you, not just in dreams.

These articles explore how hearing God through dreams fits into the bigger picture of hearing his voice in general, within the context of a living relationship with God.

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Living life with God

Dreams can open up our relationship with God in a new way, and we can even have heavenly encounters as we sleep. Here are some articles explaining ways that can happen, and what it might look like in a dream:

Dreams and the Christian life

And finally… here are some articles looking at specific areas of the Christian life, how dreams can help, and what that might look like symbolically in a dream:

What now?

I hope you feel inspired to press on with your dream journey!

Here is a summary list of all the articles for reference (in case you wish to download it and mark them off as you work through).

I have made all my dream resources available for free, but, as you can imagine, years of work have gone into producing these resources. So, if you would like to say thank you, you can donate at the link below.