Because of that dream's consistency, I dreaded Sleep.

 

bzzzzzt  bzzt........

Somehow my heart skipped a beat as I answered a call from an unknown number.

When I picked up the call this was my conversation with the caller. 

Caller: Hi I am Ballon, I got your number from your sister and I was wondering if you help with the interpretation of a dream I had. 

As we began to discuss, I realized that many of us tend to be puzzled about our dreams while most do not just care. They become concerned when they dream of losing a loved one or influencing their mortality.

We all dream, it is just that we tend to forget what we dream about. An average person dreams four to six times per night just that most tend to forget what they dreamt about. 

To be able to analyze your dream first off you must understand the sequence of your dreams and understand fully how God speaks to you. Most people have encounters with the Lord through dreams.

Dream analysis can be simple, most times tactical. The dreams you get may not always mean what you think, you can sometimes dream something, and it means something else. 

Dreams can be: 

• Prophetic dreams: Gen 37:5-8 (NIV): The dreams of Joseph were prophetic they tell of the future God has for him ...We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.” His brothers said to him, "Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.
• Symbolic dream:  Gen 41:16-20. ...The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: they are seven years of famine. "Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt. The dreams of Pharoah were symbolic, it symbolized a period of famine and plenty.
• Encouraging dreams: Judges 7:13-14 (NIV)...''This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands."
• Warning dreams: Gen 20:3 (NIV) But God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman''. (Matt 2:12) (NKJV) "Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own country another way."

This passage refers to the wise men being warned in a dream to avoid Herod after the birth of Jesus.

 So here is the secret I have learned, when you have a dream, take that dream to God, and in Him, you will find the meaning of the dream. 

The book of Deuteronomy 29:29 says the secret things belong to God, but the things revealed belong to us. 

For more tips on dreams Get Stephanie Ike Okafor's book on Dreams. It helped me a lot and I know it will help you too on your revival journey.