Dreaming of God
Do people see God in their dreams? If so, this could contribute to our understanding of how humans view the divine.
Let’s assume we understand the relationship between people’s view of the world when awake and when sleeping. If we then look at how people see God in their dreams, we can map that to a view of God during their waking consciousness.
Personally, I don’t experience the divine during my dreams. But I have some insight during my processes of perception while dreaming. I have an overall sense of what’s happening, but with a relatively vague focus. For instance, I may sense the presence of a group of people, but I don’t see their individual faces in detail. But if I decide to zoom in on them—much like a digital camera zoom—I can then see details. Recently I dreamt I saw a garden, but only vaguely the flower beds—until I zoomed in on them and saw individual petals. During my dreams I do not walk, but rather float. That’s rather convenient, since I can drift over walls and descend the sides of buildings. I also note that I am separate from myself in dreams; my character goes ahead of me, but then I follow it.
Let’s collect information on what people see of God during their dreams, and use our knowledge about the nature of dreams to map that back to equivalent non-dreaming divine experiences.
February 18th, 2006 at 7:06 am
For some time I’ve wondered why my dreams never contain any sense of God while my waking state has included some presence of God for most of the last twenty years. Meanwhile I’ve heard the stories of others who had a conversion experience in a dream that was more intense than any experience of God while awake. One could say that experiencing God is just that idiosyncratic. Different people wind up associating God with different things, just as a cross is different from a Star of David. Potentially God might be attached to things even more different, nature for some people, family for others, a personal object for some, or something intellectual for others. I’m very skeptical about there being any “God module� in the brain to explain that in the same way for everyone.
February 19th, 2006 at 10:28 am
Hi, I had a dream that god walked up to me and handed me a child and the child began to grow into a full grown person. I could tell it was a woman but the person I was holding looked like a mummy when the cloth is removed. This accured twice as if god was telling me something and I could actually see him as clear as I see someone on the street but he would not talk to me. Do you have any Idea what this could mean.
March 11th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
Terri…You’re spiritual nature is telling you you have a great potential for spiritual growth, but something in your psyche needs to wake up from an inactive state.
March 25th, 2006 at 6:02 am
From moment to moment
As we make our choices
In thought and action
A gentle presence
Gives us subtle guidance.
May 6th, 2006 at 12:56 am
I was swimming in a large body of water, I was swimming to the shore. I got up and stood upon the ground and suddenly the wind started to pick up and the water started to turn into waves making a loud sound best described as clapping of hands.
There were alot of trees to my right and as the wind went faster every tree started to bow down until they broke at the base. Then the sky turned completely red, a light reddish hue and His voice came from the sky. I cannot truely describe His voice as it is everything and more than words can describe.
August 9th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
when awake i don’t believe in god. in my dreams, god gave me the proof of existence twice. both dreams were calmig, out of one i woke up laughing. i didn’t see god, i just got some indirect indication of the presence.
when awake i don’t believe in god.
January 5th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Hey. I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ. I also believe that God takes on multiple personalities to get across to certain people. I love hinduism and I feel a lot of comfort with Krishna. A night or 2 ago I remember having a dream where I was going to a Krishna temple to give thanks, but I ran away becasue you wern’t allowed in there. Then just last night I had a dream he was walking next to me, and told me to follow him into this dark doorway almost, with light all around it. I told him I was scared and I can almost remember it clear as day, he said “There is no need to be affraid” and it was the most comforting thing I think anyone has ever told me. Once we walked through the door, I noticed my consciousness imediatly changing.. I can barely describe it. It was the best feeling I’ve ever felt in my life, and if felt so real. I didn’t worry about past mess ups, or anything for that matter. My asthma and pains went away in one second. I couldn’t wait to tell people (in the dream) what I was experiencing and how it felt. I thanked Krishna so much for letting me feel this feeling, and I felt like I completed everything, and there was no more to do. I woke up in my regular state of mind, but I’d like to know if anyone has any idea what this dream could mean? If anyone has any input I’d be happy.
Peace and Love,
Mike.
April 8th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I don’t know a single person that ever had a dream about God. I truly believe in Him and not once ever dreamt about Him. I find that kinda strange. Maybe it’s because God is real and if you dream about Him, you’re really seeing him and not just a dream.
May 1st, 2007 at 12:29 pm
I had a dream where I did not physically see God, but i felt his presence and he gave me strengh.
Mind you I believe in God, but I have no been to church in 12 years. three nights in a row I had this horrible dream about my family being the family of the Amneville horror. The setting took place in my mothers house and it was my step dad (who in real life is very religous) murdered my mother in the first dream. It was very vivid and detailed. The next night I had the same dream, but I saved my mother knowing the dream I had the night before and took it as a premanition, but instead he killed his daughter. Throughout all the dreams I’m in the house and there in an evil presence that never goes away. It tries to, I guess the best way to describe it is consume me. The whole time it is cat and mouse. The third night once again I had the same dream, but I save my mom, and my step-dads daughter and because of that my step dad comes after me. There are many details that I forget, but at one point in my dream I stop running. I feel this strength of God and suddenley I’m not afraid anymore. I’m standing in the doorway of my mothers basement yelling the Our Father and Hail Mary. This was so vivid and verbatem I said each prayer at least 15 times in my dream and when I was done it was gone. There was no evil presence and my step dad was no longer in the dream. I felt this overwelming calm in my dream as if I was saved by God’s prayer and belief after having this lucid horrible dream 3 nights in a row. Then I am in a safe place. it’s no longer my mother’s house it’s my Aunt’s and I’m with a friend that I knew when I was 14.
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:33 pm
I dreamed that an image of God’s face was floating over me when I rolled over and looked up from my bed upon waking. It was as if God were watching over me as I slept and remained when I awoke so I would know He was there. He had long brown hair and beard and was wearing a reddish or maroon colored cloak, but I could only see to His shoulders. He looked like an iconic painting of Jesus on a yellow background, like a light was shining behind Him. He was telling me that He was there no matter what, and that everything was going to be alright for me even if something “bad” happened. In the dream I was weeping with joy. When I actually woke up I had chills and tingling down my neck and spine as if a spirit were still in the room, the same sensations I get when I think there may be a spirit or presence in the room with me.
August 19th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Ok i am going through a tough time in my life with the things of losing a job that i love soo much. i was a person that went to church almost every day in belive that god is real and that he had a son name jesus that died on the cross for our sins. well the dream that i had was that i was shot and i knew that i was shoot by a person that i thought was a friend. i then died and i saw a bright bright light. then all of sudden i was in a line that was with over thoundsands of thousands of people trying to get into this huge door that was beautiful gold gate. as i enter the gate there were people in there that were soo nice and kind and welcome you to a place that i reliazed was heaven. i felt like i didnt want to come back to earth becuz i wanted to always go to heaven and leave this world called earth. i felt like i lost everything that i loved on earth and felt like there was no hope for me no second chances. then all of a sudden everyone started too get down on there knees and started to pray. i was thinking to myself why? then all of a sudden i seen with my own two eyes a man with long hair white robe and sandles. he was flying to the middle of this like a waterful stage i cant make it out.then i starrted to get on my knees and i prayed to jeues like i never prayed before. then this voice said brandon my name in a softly voice. i then begin to cry profusley i could not stop crying. i then begin to repent my sins and i ask jeus i dont want to go back to earth i want to stay here i dont have nothing there anymore. i ask just started to cry like i never cried before and started to tell him why i dont want to go back. jeus the wrapped his arms around me, i then begin to float in the air and float towards the sky. then jeus said to me iin a soft voice second chance to live then i woke up. I then started to cry becuz i couldnot not belive what had just happen to me. like god was telling me to hold on he hears me cries and that sucide is not the answer.it is a dream that i will never forget becuz that night i wanted to end all but i waited for an answer from god on what i should do. god is real i belive with all my heart. i was soo scared becuz i thought i was dead i was shot and killed be people i thought loved me. but jesues said it is not ur time yet belive in me by faith that u are my son. dont give up hope. this was a crazy dream. it felt soo real.
September 18th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I had a dream of God. In my dream I was standing at the end of my court, looking around at total desolation. Everything was perfect, detailed exactly as my court normally looks but for the lack of people and some scattered debis of children’s toys. The air itself seemed to have a brownish tinge to it. I gazed at all of this and yet had an overwhelming feeling of love and security and at this point was aware of a presence to my left. Confused by the brownish color of everything I looked up into the sky and saw a blood colored sun dimmed by an ugly yellow-brown overcast. At that moment I felt a twinge of anxiety and the presence beside me said “Do not be afraid” and my fears were extinguished. I looked to him and knew wholeheartedly that this was God and I said “I am not.” and looked back to the sky. The sun was moving abnormally fast and in a matter of seconds had moved to the horizon, then backtracked at the same speed and made for the horizon again. It did this two or three more times and though I never understood it later, I felt as though a great battle was coming and I should not live in fear of it.
October 15th, 2007 at 12:59 am
When I was little, in my dream, I was playing with my little brother in this old house, all of a sudden a light appeared and it was a face. I couldn’t really see the face. Then I got out of my dream and was laying in my bed in my room, then a hand came out of my room wall and pointed to the ground and said follow in my path. When the finger pointed to the ground I could kinda see hell but I really didn’t peak over my bed to get a good look and then the hand went back and I was hiding under my covers. I felt like I was really in my room and think I was!
October 25th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
I have been sparatically having dreams of god. I had a near death experience over 20 years ago. I am 35 now. I was brought back to life but remember crossing over to the other side or at least walking towards trees but than got tired and a voice told me that it was not time for me yet and that i must go back. I now dream of him and he lift me up and i feel like i am floating in air. The last dream i had he looked just like the picture at the top of this page. That was his face in my dream. He was giving me strenth and courage but i don’t know for what. that dream has stuck with me for a while. I wolk up after that dream and felt like he was there with me.
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:17 am
OK - I will try to describe my dream as best i can…I am not a very religious person at all, in fact I have spent most of my life doubting the existence of any higher power. But last night, it was a bad night, I am a single mother, trying to save the house my daughter and I call home, trying to provide a good life for us. I had just got done writing out the bills and took a motrin and went to bed, crying and scared. Soon after, I had this dream…I seem to remember I was barely asleep because it woke me up with a start…I wasn’t sure if I was going to die that night or not. In my dream I saw God. I couldn’t even say what He looked like. But he was large, larger than life itself – I KNEW it was him, I had no doubt, I just automatically knew it was him. I saw him but without seeing him. He had a red velvet like box, when he removed the lid inside was a ball, like an ornament. It was painted like a globe and he lifted it from the box and held it up by the string attached. I knew immediately that He was holding my world in His hands. I was nervous, what was he going to do with my world??? He placed it in a red velvet pouch with a drawstring. After that I woke up. WHAT does all this mean?
May 6th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
I BELIEVE IN GOD AND CHRIST. THIS IS A DREAM ABOUT MEETING GOD AND TRYING TO SEE HIM. I HAD THIS DREAM IN MY EARLY TWENTIES, I AM NOW THIRTY SEVEN. I START OFF IN THIS HUGE OPEN FIELD OF BEAUTIFUL GREEN GRASS WITH LIMESTONE ROCK EVERYWHERE. THE SKY IS A VERY BOLD BLUE. IN GROUPS FORMED IN CIRCLES ARE PEOPLE SITTING AND HEADS ARE BOWED. THEIR CLOTHES ARE LIKE THE ONES IN THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS MOVIE, WITH CHARLTON HESTON. I WALK AROUND AND SEE ALL THESE PEOPLE THERE, JUST IN CIRCLES SITTING WITH THEIR HEAD BOWED DOWN. I FINALLY GO TO ONE GROUP AND ASKED WHEY ARE YOU SITTING HERE. THE REPLY, WE ARE WAITING FOR GOD TO APPEAR, SO WHEN HEAR WHAT HE HAS TO SAY. NOW THE PERSON WHO WAS SPEAKING WAS VERY FAMILIAR. I KNEW IT, MOSES. EXACT GARB OF CLOTHING, THAT CHARLTON HESTON WORE IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. I ASK HIM, ARE YOU MOSES. HE SAYS YES AND INTRODUCES HIS WIFE TO HIS RIGHT AND ALL THE MEMBERS IN THE GROUP. THEY ALL HAD GREY BEARDS AND JUST BEARDS PERIOD. AT LEAST SEVEN IN THIS CIRCLE. I TELL SUPPOSEDLY MOSES, YEAH RIGHT, YOU ARE NOT MOSES, BUT CHARLTON HESTON, WHO IMAGES HIMSELF AFTER WHAT MOSES WOULD LOOK LIKE. HE SAYS NO I AM HIM AND WE AWAIT GOD. I SAY WELL I AM NOT WORTHY TO SIT WITH YOU AND I AM TO WALK AROUND. HE ADVISES ME NOT TO. SO IN MY WALK, AN OLD BROWN WOODEN HOUSE, SIX HUNDRED SQUARE FEET. A PERFECT LITTLE HOUSE, BUT OLD AND RICKETY. I OPEN THE DOOR AND IN THIS HOUSE ARE ALL MY INDIAN AND MEXICAN FAMILY MEMBERS, ALIVE AND PAST AWAY. I WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE THEM ALL. I FELT SO MUCH INNER PEACE. SO NOW I ATTEMPT TO FIND ONE FAMILY MEMBER TO TELL OF THAT GOD IS GOING TO APPEAR RIGHT OUTSIDE THE DOOR. I TELL A COUSIN, BUT BACK OUT OF MY STORY AND WALK OUT THE DOOR. I TURN AROUND AND THE HOUSE IS GONE. I THEN WALK AWAY FROM THE SUPPOSEDLY MOSES GROUP. THE SKY TURNS A WHITE CLOUD COLOR AND A VOICE OF RESEMBLENCE TO THUNDER, SAYS SIT DOWN. I STOP IN MY TRACKS AND SAY TO MYSELF NO. I KEEP ON WALKING AND THE VOICE ECHOES ACROSS THE SKY AGAIN, SIT DOWN. I STOP, BECASUE YOU SEE I FELT THAT ONE THROUGH MY WHOLE BODY. I SAYS TO MYSELF, YOU KNOW WHAT I WILL TURN AROUND AND SEE THIS MYSTERIOUS GOD. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE. I TURN AROUND AND THE LIGHT WAS SO BRIGHT I COULD NOT SEE. I TAKE MY HANDS AND COULPE THEM TOGETHER AND TRY TO SEE THROUGH THE CRACKS OF MY FINGERS. FOR I WANT TO SEE THIS MYSTERIOUS GOD. I TRY TO LOOK AND MY EYE IS BLINDED, IT IS AS IF YOU ARE LOOKING DIRECTLY INTO A LIGHT BULB. I COULD NOT SEE. I TRY ONCE MORE, TO SEE AN IMAGE OF A MAN OR WHAT. AS I TAKE A PEEK, A LOUD THUNDEROUS VOICE SAYS SIT DOWN. THIS TIME MY WHOLE BODY FELT EVERY EMOTION I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED IN ONE SHOT. HURT, PAIN, LAUGHTER, TEARS OF JOY AND SADNESS, EXCITED, HATRED, LOVE, DEATH, NEWBORN AND FINALLY FIZZLED OUT WITH EXHAUSTEMNT. I FELL TO MY KNEES AND CRIED AND CRAWLED TO THE NEAREST CIRLCE OF PEOPLE AND THERE WAS MOSES, HE SAID COME SIT MY SON WITH US AND JOIN US IN THE OFFERING OF HOLY COMMUNION. HE OPENED UP A BASKET AND A FISH LAY THERE AND HE TOOK A PIECE AND PASSED THE BASKET AROUND FOR EVERYONE TO TAKE A BITE. WHEN CAME TO MY TURN, I CRINGED AT THE TASTE TO BE EXPECTED. I TOOK A PIECE IN MY MOUTH AND IT TASTED LIKE COMMUNION, THEY OFFER AT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. I TOLD MOSE AND THE REST THERE, I AM SINNER AND I DO NOT BELONG WITH YOU FOLKS, I HAVE DONE WRONG ALL MY LIFE. HE NODDED AND SAYS YES WE ALL HAVE, DO YOU NOW BELIEVE THERE IS A GOD AND NO OTHERE SHALL TAKE HIS PLACE AS SO HIGH. I SAID YES, I FEAR NO MAN BUT GOD. I THEN WOKE UP SWEATING AND CRYING, BUT YET FELT CLEAN AND FREE. I SEE THE WORLD IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT NOW AND SEE THE CHERISHING MOMENTS OF LIFE ON A DAILY BASIS. I HAVE A JOB AND A GOOD WOMEN, BUT NEVERTHELESS I BELIEVE TO GET AS CLOSE AS TO GOD AS I HAVE EVER BEEN. I COULD NOT SEE HIM, AS HARD AS I TRIED, BUT FELT HIM, HEARD HIS VOICE THROUGH THUNDER, AND THE ONLY IMAGE WAS THE BRIGHTEST WHITEST LIGHT I HAVE EVER SEEN. THERE IS A GOD AND HE LOVES US ALL. GOD JUST WANTS US TO LOVE HIM AND FREELY TAKE CARE OF THOSE WHO LOST ALL HOPE. THE POOR AND THE MEEK ARE THE ONES WE SHOULD CHERISH. LIVE LIFE SIMPLE AND CHERISH THE PRECIOUS MOMENTS, FOR HOW LONG ARE WE HERE ON EARTH FOR, QUESTION, NO ONE KNOWS BUT ARE CREATOR. THERE ARE MANY RELIGIONS, WHO FIGHT FOR WHICH ONE IS THE BEST OR ULITMATE. ONE GOD, AND HE WANTS US TO LOVE EACH OTHER AND TAKE CARE OF ONE ANOTHER, TREAT EACH OTHER KINDLY, AND WHEN HARM OR HATRED IS UPON US, JUST THINK THAT THIS IS GODS CHILD, JUST AS I AM. HE LOVES HIM OR HER, JUST AS HE LOVES ME. I WILL STAND AS A SOLDIER FOR GOD AND DO HIS BIDDING. THE STORY HERE TODAY HAS AFFECTED MY LIFE AND SHOWN ME A NEW WAY OF LIVING. TO ENJOY THE WORLD AND THE SMALL THINGS, THE POOREST ARE THE BEST COVERSATIONALIST AND THE MOST GENUINE, I HAVE FOUND SO FAR, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN A SMALL AMOUNT OF WEALTHY FOLKS I HAVE ENCOUNTERED THAT ARE JUST AS REAL. I JUST DON WALK IN THOSE CIRCLES OF PEOPLE OF MONEY. ITS NOT THAT I DONT WANT TO, ITS JUST, I DEAL WITH PEOPLE IN AN ORDINARY WAY OF LIFE. GOD IS GREAT AND HE IS THERE WITH HIS ANGELS WATCHING US.