Sleep, as you well know, is imposed on our body for its proper functioning. And we cannot speak of a dream without sleep. If sleep does not suffer from rarity, then neither do dreams. This means that each of our sleeps is associated with a dream or a dream.

Speaking of the term “dream,” these two terms are interchangeable in the Bible, such that one or the other is used to express the same thing. However, it seems that some prefer to reserve the word “dream” for dreams that conceal an interpretation, but this is not specified in the scriptures.

To these two terms is added a third: “night vision,” which theoretically means the same thing but, as we will see later, differs from the others in a few particularities, although they generally mean the same thing.

Many people wake up in the morning and say, “I didn’t dream anything today.” Others will even go so far as to tell you, “I never dream,” but that’s false; it’s simply the result of ignorance!

It has been scientifically proven that we dream every night and that we spend more than two hours dreaming each night. The problem arises with the memorization or retention of our dreams. We certainly dream, but we don’t remember them all, and some don’t remember any at all.

Several theories exist to explain why we forget our dreams. Some say it’s because of their rather complex content; others believe that when we wake up within eight minutes of dreaming and beyond this time, our memory erases them.

But you’ll agree with me that you most often remember dreams that were interrupted by waking up. In other words, you most often remember the last dreams you had before waking up.

Understand this: humankind is tripartite: spirit, soul, and body. So when we sleep, the body is at rest and the spirit takes over. Now, the human spirit is connected to brain activity through the soul. There is thus a link between the spiritual and the intellect. And so, being at rest, easier contact is made between our brain and our spirit, which takes over throughout the entire period of sleep. So, it is in the human spirit that dreams generally, but not always, take place. (I will explain this in the following chapters.)

This is why when you wake up from your dream or when you wake up in the morning, you say: “last night I saw” or “in my dream I saw.” But the question to ask yourself is this: “How do you say you saw when your eyes were closed?” “How can you, as rational as you are, say that you saw with your eyes closed?

The explanation is simple, but difficult for some to accept. It is that man is not only body, he is also soul and spirit. And just as your body has eyes, a mouth, ears, and limbs, your spirit also has eyes, ears, a mouth, and limbs.

Moreover, you are a spirit dwelling in a body. When I put on a space suit, a medical suit, a diving suit, or any other kind of suit you know, I am not the suit. But the suit is modeled after my body so that I can put it on. Thus, the body is modeled after the real you: your spirit, so that you can put it on. And so, the spirit of man is in the image of God, and the body of man is modeled after his spirit.
The body, then, is only a suit or a tent for your spirit.

“For we know that if this earthly tent is destroyed, we have a building in heaven, the work of God, an eternal dwelling not made with hands. Therefore, we groan in this tent, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling place.” 2 Corinthians 5:1-2

Paul is speaking here of the body as a simple tent in which we actually live, and which will be destroyed. But he also indicates that we will receive another body, which is heavenly. He is not talking about living in heaven, but rather a body represented by a tent, which is heavenly, unlike this tent you currently have. But that is not our subject.

So the dream takes place in the human mind, and then there must be a backup from the mind to the body, a copy of information before the connection is broken. It’s a bit like when you copy files from a computer to a USB drive. The copy must be completed successfully and successfully, otherwise the file is destroyed and becomes unreadable.

This makes us understand that we do indeed dream every night, sometimes even three or four times in the same night, but if the copying of information from the mind to the body isn’t completed properly, we either retain no memory at all or only a few fragments. This is why we sometimes wake up with a single image or a few blocks of images from a longer dream that has since been erased.

But when we wake up in the middle of a dream, it is very difficult to forget it. You will therefore understand why people never forget their nightmares because they often wake up with a start, right in the middle of the nightmare. And then they still remember all the details because the connection between mind and body is still fresh.

I pray in the name of Jesus that the Lord may grant you grace so that you never forget your dreams again.

I pray that your spirit may be awakened to receive what comes from above!

This text is an excerpt from the book “Understanding Sleep and the Dream World” by Ezekiel Michael Sankinka.

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