Understanding Dream Origins: Divinity, Humanity, and Devil Influences

All dreams can be classified into at least three (3) categories according to the historically most-read Good Book - The Bible. 

1. Divinity-influenced dreams
2. Humanity-influenced dreams
3. Devil-influenced dreams

Divinity-influenced dreams

These are dreams that serve as communication channels from divinity to humanity. They are information passed on to dwellers of the time realm from the eternal (timeless) realm. They serve as bridges connecting the spiritual to the natural. They are usually in the forms of warning (as was the case of Joseph being warned by an angel of God in the dream to take his wife and baby Jesus away to Egypt for safety from the King who wanted him dead), direction (as was the case of the wise men who were told to go back to their country using a different route from the one they came to Bethlehem through), deliverance or solution (as was the case of Daniel who was divinely given the solution to a kingdom issue that would have led to his and his friends' execution), redirection (as was the case of Paul who had planned to go do ministry somewhere but was redirected to Macedonia through a dream), among others.

Humanity-influenced Dreams

The Good Book, the Bible, equally points to the fact that dreams come through the multitude of business - a person's day-to-day interactions in their occupation (the reason for some people dreaming of attending meetings, sorting files, or carrying out the same activities they do daily in their workplace), family (the reason for some people dreaming of going on a date with their spouses or having a family picnic in a place they have been to or that they desire to visit), profession (like fashion designers making clothes in their dreams because they did a lot of that in the day, or a medical practitioner seeing and attending to patients in a dream because of a busy shift they had at the clinic in the day), entertainment (like watching movies in the dream as a continuation of the movies watched before sleeping or seeing a particular entertainment scene they had watched, heard or been involved in playing out in their dreams as real as real can be), sports (reason for people playing or watching their favorite sports in the dream because they did that before sleeping), etc. These are just to mention a few as the sources of this category are endless. They revolve around all human activities - singing, shouting, playing, crying, fighting, arguing, working, eating, traveling, thinking, meditating, exercising, walking, cooking, vacationing, etc. Whatever humans do themselves, whatever others do to them, or what they do to others - in the past or present - qualify as genuine sources of such dreams - the multitude of mind businesses. 

Devil-influenced dreams

A quick introduction to this character called the devil. The devil is not a physical being, he is a spiritual being. That is, he operates from the realms of the spirit but carries out his operations on earth (in the physical realm) through his demons and human agents. He is a fallen angel; meaning he used to work closely with divinity until he fell into the sin of "desiring to be worshipped like divinity" and he was cast out of his place in the heavenly realm. 

Though he was cast out of heaven, he hasn't lost his burning desire to be worshipped by humans. He has been seeking to control humans since his fall, and he doesn't give up easily on that quest. Now, because of his knowledge of the operations of divinity among humans, he has learned the skill of counterfeiting whatever divinity does among humans so he can deceive humans into believing that it is still from divinity - and through humanity's ignorance, he gains the control he has always wanted to have over them. He can transform himself into an angel of light - like the angels working for divinity, and thus deceive humans or make them serve his purpose while thinking they are serving divinity's purpose.

This is why, like divinity, he also passes information to humans through dreams. He shows them pictures, symbols, people, situations, events, etc. But unlike the divinity-influenced dreams, his purposes in all these dreams are to deceive, mislead, scare, discourage, distract, frustrate, or even destroy his victims. The devil is the DIRECT OPPOSITE of all that divinity stands for with respect to dreams. The dreams he gives may be similar to those influenced by divinity, but the intention is never the same as divinity's. While the dreams from divinity may serve as a warning (about what to do to avoid an impending danger), the dreams from the devil will scare or frighten the dreamer without any way out; and in trying to do something about the dream, they just notice they keep falling into errors, and eventually, the evil they saw in the dream manifests - because they accepted it as true. In some cases, the dreams from the devil may lead unsuspecting people into wrong marriages (like seeing themselves getting married to someone and waking up to make it happen), or even wrong jobs. 

The only WAY to avoid being deceived by these dreams from the devil (falsely presented to people as dreams from divinity) is to be DISCERNING. It takes a good dose of the truth to be able to expose a lie. 

With this, we conclude this article on Where Dreams Come From, and I hope you have been enlightened. So the next time you have a dream, you can have an idea of the source.