KJB: Matthew; Dreams

From my own experience with psychotherapy, I have come to understand my dreams as reflections of my more hidden anxieties, fears, and desires. When I am asleep, I lose consciousness and my unconscious mind takes the wheel in order to show me what I’m actually thinking about when I am awake–but don’t know I am thinking about.

In Matthew, particularly in Chapters 1 and 2, dreams are used to deliver messages and warning to the characters of the story. For example, Joseph has a dream where the lord appears to him and tells him that she should not fear Mary’s fate, as she will be conceiving the Holy Ghost, aka Jesus (1:20).

I could make the argument that the way dreams are used in Matthew is different from what I use my own dreams are for: to analyze and therefore be aware and able to address my anxieties, fears, and desires. But before I can even get to the analyzing and awareness and addressing, yes: my dreams are messages. Possibly, even warnings. Would I say they are from the Lord? Or the Universe as I prefer to use? Not always.

As spiritual as I am and as much as I believe that the Universe sends me messages, I now believe that it is possible for you to receive messages from just… you. Your psyche knows you, rests within you, and is therefore the most qualified to send you messages on what you need to address about yourself and in your life.

Reading Matthew Chapters 1 and 2 has helped me see my dreams as more than, as messages. But instead of those messages always being from a higher power, from the Universe, I now know that they also come from me–the most qualified and experienced person on the subject of me.