Bible Translation Problems

I dreamt that I made pancakes which I contributed towards a breakfast with my old cross-country team. At the breakfast, since the first table was full, I had to sit in a different table with two people – one whom I sort of knew and another who I didn’t. I then taught them about problems with the Bible translation.

Strangely all of this occurred in a side parking lot by a grocery store. We then had to leave, but I was worried there wouldn’t be space because it seemed like their van was full.

I don’t fully understand the meaning of this dream.

Prayer and Blind Leading the Blind

In my dream, the Mormon apostle Uchtdorf had a quote about how prayer can help us with bowling. But then the quote was sort of replaced with a saying from President Oaks about how blind people sometimes can’t heal themselves with prayer, because that is sort of like the blind leading the blind.

Discussion

If you think about the symbolism of the sport of bowling, this dream makes more sense. In bowling, the goal is to guide the ball in a perfectly straight line towards the desired pins – likewise in our walks with Christ, we also aim to walk perfectly straightly towards Him. Nevertheless, as humans, it is almost impossible for us to perfectly guide the bowling ball – just as we make many mistakes in our walk towards Christ – hence the need for prayer. This likening of aiming a bowling ball towards the correct spot in the pins to aiming ourselves towards Christ reminds me of this scripture:

Philippians 3:13–14
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Relating this to the idea of the blind leading the blind: in bowling, we know where we want the ball to go, it is just hard to make that happen. Thus, if we prayed for help getting our ball there, then the prayer probably will have an effect. However, if you don’t know where to aim the ball, then praying for help in perfecting your throw will likely not help much. Similarly, our prayers will be more effective if we are praying to be able to accomplish things in alignment with God’s will. Thus, if we are completely lost theologically and going astray, then prayers likely will be less effective, and we will need someone else to first help teach us the truth.

Fall of Trump

I dreamt of reading a scripture about a prophet predicting the fall of a king and when it happened some believed in him. I then hoped that this would be true for me and Trump (I have had several dreams regarding the coming deposition of Trump).

In the dream, I think the ruler afterwards also fell. Thus, the person coming after Trump will probably also fall as Trump did.

Tracking Device

I dreamt that my mom gave my brother and I a tracking device – wanting us to put it on I think – and my dad also took one of these devices, which freaked me out. We then went to church, but there was a black security guard at the door who pointed a pistol at me, so I ran away.

If I were to venture an interpretation, I think the tracking device represents the mark of the beast. Thus, the security guard didn’t let me enter because you were required to have the mark in order to enter church.

Left Brain in REM Sleep and Inspiration

In my dream, I talked to my brother – who majored in neural science – about how the left brain shuts down during REM sleep. I asked him if this was true and he got a weird look on his face as though this was not something I was supposed to know. The theory of mine was that the left brain being shut down allows revelations to be processed by the brain instead of immediately being shut off – which theoretically also might allow greater inspiration.

Upon waking, I researched this, and the more technical description is that the left brain becomes disconnected from the right brain during sleep – which doesn’t really negate my theory. Thus, I speculate that the left brain somehow filters out revelations, and that during sleep you are more easily able to receive revelations because it is shut off. That is also why when humans are in a hypnogogic state, they are more able to receive revelations – because (I speculate) the brain hemispheres are more separate during this state.

Christian Zionism is Blasphemy and Corruption in Mormon Leadership

I dreamt that I was listening to the Mormon General Conference electronically. In it, for some reason Boris Johnson gave a speech, where he made fun of religion for not helping the Philippines during its depression and then encouraged Mexico to start supporting Israel because that was his dream. To this, I yelled “blasphemy, shut up!”, which of course didn’t really make a difference since I was not there in person.

After this, I heard Borris make fun of people for praying and for having a stoic attitude of accepting pain. He also made fun of people for trying to learn lessons from the depression in the Philippines, as if the only way to stop said depression was to support Israel.

I also saw a scene of how beforehand, Boris had gone out to drink alcohol with his young female assistant, and I could tell the assistant didn’t want to do this.

I also somehow learned that Borris was proud of being the one to introduce wine to Mexico. However, this wine was made of snake venom and this somehow related to having a relationship with Israel; this wine also related to why Borris thought Mexico should support Israel.

Discussion

Apparently, a country having a close relationship with Mexico is sort of like drinking wine made out of snake venom. This talk of wine reminds me of Revelations 17:2, which reads:

2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

My interpretation of this chapter has always been that the woman is America, but I still think it is noteworthy.

Rejecting “Mary Did You Know”

I then dreamt of hearing the tune of “Mary Did You Know.” Upon waking, I didn’t know what song it was, so I recorded myself humming it, and only now have I recognized it. To give you a feel for the song, here is the last verse (lyrics from here):

Mary, did you know
That your baby boy is Lord of all creation?
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will one day rule the nations?
Did you know
That your baby boy is heaven’s perfect Lamb?
This sleeping child you’re holding
Is the Great I Am

In the dream, I somehow knew that almost everything that had been done by our government for the last 30 years had been to help Israel. I then saw a prison and knew that this represented the fate of people who had other ideas for the country (for both the USA and the UK). I then also knew that the song Marry Did You Know had been rejected along the way.

Discussion

So, apparently 1) the conspiracy that our wars in the middle east are only to help Israel is true. And 2) excessively helping Israel appears to be linked to also rejecting Christ (this is the symbolism of rejecting the song Marry Did You Know).

Regarding the second point: when politicians moralize helping Israel from the backdrop of Christianity, but then don’t do anything else that actually directly relates to Christianity, then that sort of represents politicians allowing Israel to crowd out the rest of Christianity.

Other

I dreamt that prison can be good because it can help us focus on God

Random Astral Projection

I astral projected into my parent’s house, where everything was dark and felt creepy. I tried entering my Dad’s closet, but it just looked like a black void, so instead I went into the backyard, where I saw my cat. I reached towards the cat, and the cat reacted in fear as if it perceived my presence. I then walked up the street, and reality morphed around me so that the houses became huge, creepy, Victorian looking mansions. I came up to one, which had a fancy metal fence in front with decorative spikes along it. I climbed over the fence and came to the house and entered. Just inside I saw what I guess is a demonic entity. It looked like a floating burlap sack, made of a patchwork of yellow and red fabric, with a face sown into it. Strangely, my backpack was also there, and the entity pointed at my backpack and told me to leave, so I did.