bible and theology on Nightmares

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

Ronald Rohlheiser begins his excellent book, Our One Great Act of Fidelity , with a story of a young girl. She had awoken from a nightmare, convinced that monsters had invaded her room and were comin...

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

“We walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail, or worse yet, afraid we may succeed.”

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Disturb us, O Lord, when We are too pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true Because we dreamed too little, When we arrived safely Because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, O...

The accomplished science fiction writer and futurist H.G. Wells lived through the dark days of the Blitz in London (during the Second World War). One evening, a fellow writer named Elizabeth Bowen fou...

You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”

A man named Jack was driving on a dark country road one night when he got a flat tire. He saw a cabin in the woods and began to walk towards it. He told himself that the person who answered the door w...

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capt...

The mind in all its intricate beauty can be a place of great anguish. Thoughts can both grip us for the good and plague us for that which is not. In Dickens’ Christmas novella, The Chimes, he describe...

Psychologists tell us that one of the most difficult conditions a person can be forced to bear is light deprivation. Darkness, in fact, is often used in military captivity or penal institutions to bre...

The nearer the dawn, the darker the night

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

When my eldest son, Drew, was a toddler, bedtime was a battleground in our house. I think he felt cheated by the prospect of sleep. He hated the thought of going to bed while the rest of the world con...

Years ago, I read an old fairy tale about a wicked witch who lived in a remote cottage in the deep forest. When travelers came through looking for lodging, she offered them a meal and a bed. It was th...

God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.

I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Editor’s Note: This story is often told as a true story, when in fact it is probably fictitious. Nevertheless, there is a significant illustrative point: sometimes the things we fear most may in fact ...

When we’re chasing our dreams, all the turbulence we face shouldn’t scare us into pulling back, though. The shaking, jerking, and rattling in our lives are telling us we’re getting close to the breakt...

I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.

Disturb us, Lord, when we are too pleased with ourselves; when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little; when we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lo...

I believe any dream worth birthing will require fierce labor to bring it forth. Some of those painful, spiritual contractions you’ve been feeling are not necessarily indicators that you are out of God...