Dream Interpret

[Friodarrin]

In my dream, a big grizzly bear and a young girl with short hair, an old-fashioned dress, and piercing bluish-gray eyes that looked as if she were blind stood outside for a very long time, relentlessly calling me "mom" and telling me to come with them. They told me their mom's spirit is in me, even though I am ### and never had children in real life. I was inside our bathroom, and the girl and the bear were never able to break in or get past that bathroom door. There's a hole on the door, I peek on it and I saw the girl's eye staring at me while still chanting for me to come with them. They speak a language I do not know or understand, but somehow I understood what they mean. I poke the girl's eye with a black stick,, but she didn't even flinch or get hurt at all. Separately, I saw vivid imagery while I was inside the dream. I saw a group of people dancing and chanting, holding up a red scarf or handkerchief with a symbol on it, telling me to come with them. They wore the same clothes as the girl. Terrified, I tried to yell "In Jesus' name!" loudly in my dream, but I could only say it in a whisper. Right after that, I woke up and immediately told my mom what happened. Can someone help me? Is someone after me?

 

[Articles]

We have read your dream with care and we are standing with you in prayer together in Jesus' name, asking for God's peace and protection over you and your home.

What you describe is very distressing and we understand why you woke up terrified and needed to tell your mom right away, which was a wise and right thing to do. Dreams like this can feel overwhelming, but we do not believe this dream is God calling you to go with these figures or revealing that another person's spirit is inside you. Scripture is clear that it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, Hebrews 9:27. There is no reincarnation and no transmigration of a mother's spirit into another person. What you encountered in the dream has the marks of deception and of familiar spirits trying to claim you and to produce fear. The enemy is a liar and even masquerades as things that seem familiar or compelling, 2 Corinthians 11:14. We are to test the spirits, whether they are of God, 1 John 4:1, and any spirit that chants, coerces, and demands that you come away from the safety God has given you is not from God.

We also notice several important details that show God's mercy and protection even in the midst of fear. You were inside and the bear and the girl, and the group of people dancing and chanting with the red scarf and symbol, were never able to break in or get past that bathroom door. That closed door reminds us of the truth that he who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty, Psalm 91:1, and that greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world, 1 John 4:4. The Lord kept a barrier between you and what was calling you. When you peeked through the hole and saw the girl's eye staring and chanting, and when you tried to poke her eye with a black stick and she did not flinch, it shows that fleshly weapons and curiosity do not overcome spiritual darkness. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, 2 Corinthians 10:4. Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places, Ephesians 6:12. Her blind bluish gray eyes that pierce yet cannot see speak of spiritual blindness, and the unknown language you somehow understood speaks of a deceptive spirit trying to communicate without words. The dancing, chanting, and the red scarf with a symbol, with all wearing the same old fashioned clothes, has the appearance of an occult or ancestral ritual, and Scripture warns us not to turn to familiar spirits or seek after wizards, Leviticus 19:31, and that there shall not be found among you anyone who uses divination or a charmer or one who consults familiar spirits, Deuteronomy 18:10-12.

We also want to gently rebuke the fear that is trying to take hold of you and the lie that someone's spirit is in you or that you must go with them. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control, 2 Timothy 1:7. You did the right thing to try to call on the name of Jesus, even if in the dream it only came as a whisper. The Lord hears even a whisper, and when we are awake we can learn to exercise that authority boldly. Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you, James 4:7. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, Ephesians 6:11. It is only by the name of Jesus that we have access to God and it is only by that name we are saved, for Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me, John 14:6, and there is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved, Acts 4:12. If you have not already done so, we encourage you to confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, for with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation, Romans 10:9-10.

So we encourage you not to seek out secular dream dictionaries, mediums, or occult interpretations, and not to invite or engage with these figures again out of curiosity. Instead fill your mind and your room with the Word of God and with worship before sleep. Read Scripture aloud, pray aloud with your mom, and ask your pastor or a mature Christian believer to pray over you and your home. Remove any objects, music, shows, games, or books that honor darkness or the occult, and keep your heart and eyes fixed on Christ. When fear rises at night, speak Scripture aloud. You received not the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, Abba Father, Romans 8:15. In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus, Philippians 4:6-7.

We now pray together for you in Jesus' name.

Father in heaven, we come before you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ and we thank you that you are our refuge and fortress. We thank you that you kept the door closed in this dream and did not allow the enemy to break in, and we ask you to keep your hand of protection upon this dear one and upon her mother and household. We rebuke every lying spirit that called her mom and claimed her and told her another spirit was in her, and we declare that claim is false and has no authority over one who belongs to you. We command every spirit of fear, intimidation, and deception to leave and to have no place in her mind, her sleep, or her home, and we ask you to fill every place with your Holy Spirit, with light, with truth, and with perfect peace. Lord, give her boldness to speak the name of Jesus aloud and to put on the whole armor of God daily, to read your Word, to pray, and to worship you. Guard her dreams, give her sweet and peaceful sleep, Psalm 4:8, and let her know that you hear even her whisper and that you are near. Draw her close to Jesus, assure her of salvation and belonging, and let her walk in power, love, and a sound mind. Lead her to godly counsel and surround her with believers who will stand with her. We ask all this according to your will in the precious and powerful name of Jesus, our only Savior and protector, amen.

We encourage you to keep talking with your mom and with a trusted pastor, to pray together out loud each night, and to remember that the Lord who kept that door shut in the dream is the same Lord who watches over you when you are awake. Keep seeking Jesus daily, for he is faithful to keep you and to give you peace.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear how frightening this was for you, and we are glad you told your mom right away. Waking up terrified and still hearing those voices chanting would shake anyone, especially when you tried to call on Jesus and could only whisper.

Please hear this, even a whispered name of Jesus is heard. You were kept safe in the dream, that door held, they could not get in, and you woke up. That matters more than trying to decode every symbol, the bear, the eye at the hole, the red scarf, the language you somehow understood. Vivid dreams can feel like a message or a threat, but they are often just the way fear speaks at night, not a sign that someone has a claim on you or that you must go with them.

It was wise to bring this into the light instead of carrying it alone. We would encourage you to keep doing that. Talk it through with your mom and with a trusted pastor when you are fully awake and calm, pray simply together before sleep, and if the fear lingers or the dreams keep coming, let a pastor or counselor walk with you so you are not sorting it out by yourself late at night. Try not to search for hidden meanings online or replay the images over and over, that tends to feed fear rather than quiet it.

Father in Jesus' name we lift this dear one to You. Thank You that You are near and You hear even a whisper. Give deep peace tonight, quiet this fear, and make Your presence and protection real. Give wisdom to her and to her mom and pastor as they talk and pray together, and draw her close to Jesus where she can rest. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

It is a terrible thing to be pressed in the night with fears and voices that seem to claim you, and I am glad you have told your mother and have brought this burden to be prayed over. You ask if someone is after you, and I would point you away from the shadows of the dream to the substance of the gospel, for your safety is not in understanding every figure you saw, but in Him who has found a ransom.

You describe a voice calling you mother and saying that another spirit is in you, though you have never borne children, with a bear and a girl outside a door you could not pass, and a company dancing with a red cloth and a strange symbol, while you could scarcely whisper the name of Jesus. Let it never be forgotten that in all that God does He acts from good reasons, and He suffers these terrors not that you should believe the lie spoken in the dream, but that you should be driven to the truth. The Scripture knows nothing of the spirit of another person dwelling in you in this way. Such a claim is not to be received. You are fearfully and wonderfully made, and if you are in Christ you are His, and no other spirit has right or power to claim you.

There are two errors to avoid. One is to make much of dreams as if every image were a message to be decoded, and the other is to make light of the real distress they bring. Troubles do not spring out of the dust, neither does affliction grow up from the ground, but the Lord Himself sits as a Refiner at the door. He permits the furnace to show us where our confidence lies. In your dream you were kept behind a door, you looked through a hole, you thrust with a stick and found no effect, and you could only whisper that blessed name. Learn this, that deliverance from the power of darkness is as much the work of God as deliverance from the guilt of sin. It is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy. No stick of our own, no striving of our own, will keep the enemy back. Christ alone is the door, and He alone is the keeper of it.

You whispered, In Jesus name, and woke. Take comfort there. The Lord does not measure prayer by its volume. He is gracious unto him and says, Deliver him from going down to the Pit, I have found a ransom. That ransom is not a thought or a charm, it is the blood of His dear Son. Nobody would have thought of that way of deliverance if God had not thought of it, and having thought of it and found it, He will not despise the weakest cry that rests upon it. The whisper that trusts in Christ is heard in heaven as loudly as any shout, for He hears the breathing of the bruised reed. If you are His, you are saved from yourself and from all the attacks of your old sins, saved from the devil, saved from evil company, for God has said it, Deliver him from going down to the Pit.

You must not fear, though you felt fear in the night. The Lord says to His own, Fear not, thou worm Jacob, I will help thee, saith the Lord. And again from His own lips, Fear not. Fear is weakening and it dishonors God, as if the arm which piled the heavens could be palsied. When the physician sees the patient shrinking from his knife he does not wonder, but when Jesus sees you shrinking from that hand which does not wound but cures by its own wound, He looks with sorrow upon such fear. Why shrink from Him? Little children ran into His arms. Run to Him now in the day, not only in the night.

Here then is counsel for your waking hours, that you may not die but live and declare the works of the Lord.

First, look to Christ and His ransom. Confess your sin and your need, and trust alone in Jesus Christ who lived, died and rose again. It is He who has delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son. Pray plainly to Him, in the light, with your voice, with Scripture open. The name of Jesus is not a spell to be shouted, it is the plea of a soul resting on His finished work.

Second, bring this into the light of fellowship. You did well to tell your mother. Continue to walk with her and with faithful believers who will pray with you and watch over you. Do not seek out those who would interpret dreams by curious arts or who would invite you to seek that company again. Turn away from it, of what service can it be to thee? Let the red scarf and the chanting and the unknown tongue have no place in your seeking. What you need is the Word of God, plain and pure.

Third, fill your mind and your room with that Word. Read the Psalms aloud before you sleep, pray the Lord's prayer, sing a hymn of deliverance. Keep your thoughts upon Christ. If again you are troubled in the night, you will have that Word hidden in your heart to answer with. And in the day, labor to get rid of fear by remembering that God has not erased your name from His heart or His hands, nor yielded you up to your enemy's power.

If these terrors continue or press heavily upon your spirits in the day, seek the help of a godly pastor near you, that he may pray with you and instruct you face to face, and if your sleep and peace are long disturbed, seek also wise and sober counsel for your health.

May the Lord keep back your soul from the Pit and your life from perishing. May He who is the First and the Last, He that lives and was dead and is alive for evermore, lay His right hand upon you and say, Fear not. Cast yourself upon Him in Christ, and since God has made you free, you shall be free indeed.