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Dreams are always of interest to everyone. Sometimes they mean something specific. Most of the time it’s wise to consider what we had to eat before we went to bed.
I had a dream just before I woke this morning that has rattled my world. Yet, in pondering its potential, I have come to a Christian conclusion.
In the dream I did something. I don’t know what I did. But the effects of my action (or non-action) was too much for those who know me to bear. I heard one person I know say, “That’s it! I can’t take any more.” And that person turned and walked away. The others who knew me followed suit because the first person was more dear to them than I. Evidently, I had one more obligation to accomplish near one of those who knew me. When I was finished I asked that last person to help me dump remaining items into a sack. After some painful deliberation on the part of the last person, he held the sack open for me and left. I walked out the door into the street and felt the finality cover me like a tidal wave.
When I woke, I wondered if this were a warning of something to come. I thought about the Lord’s Right to be Lord God. That nothing we desire is really ours to own. In all things God’s will is to be accomplished. And I accept anything that comes from His hand. He is God!
Sadness resounds in my soul like a great bell on a hill. I don’t know if this dream will come to pass. But it’s caused me to ready myself for anything. I give up willingly. In fact, I place myself before Him with eager willingness. I want God’s will to be accomplished in me regardless the outcome or my perception.
In considering the dream and the possibility that it is a warning of something to come, I am brought to another item of interest. Many would fight to hold on to their place in this world. But the servant of God should not be like that. It is our duty under the Blood of His Son, that we should walk without blaming others for our situations. I thought of Stephen, in the book of Acts. He had done nothing wrong. But the Jews were determined to kill him for his testimony for the Lord. While they were stoning him he asked the Lord to forgive them, for they did not know what they were doing. God was accomplishing something wonderful with every rock that impacted his body. After he said this his soul was taken from his body. With this in mind I post the following as a testimony to the Glory of God:
Father, You are Lord and God of absolutely everything in heaven and in earth. Time is yours. And in this place You have required us to endure testings of various kinds. It is to You alone that man and angels will answer. And You demand that Your people walk in obedience to Your Glorious will. I ask You, Father, to hold nothing against anyone on my behalf. Everything I have or own is not mine. They can take nothing from me. For I give it to You. Even my desire to be loved is Yours to hold and do with as You see fit. You are God! By the Beautiful Name of Your Son Jesus I present this prayer.
By His Grace.
Words From There 
Dreams are a fascinating phenomena. There is good evidence that our brains rewire and trim neural connections while we sleep and that dreaming is a way for us to turn important data into retained information by means of their symbolic representations.
So what does this mean?
It means that all kinds of dreams are important processes that evoke limbic (for lack of a better word) responses to enhance meaning of our experiences while, at the same time, reviewing data that is no longer required and releasing those neural connections to form new ones.
A dream is not a thing per se using this understanding but a necessary process. The people and events in the dream are not real per se but representative. Of what, you may ask. Well, they are representative not by any outside agency but framed and shaped by the meaning (usually our feelings) we attribute to them in our dream state.
In other words, a person we may have known at a younger age may come to represent a very specific feeling and so pops up in some dream sequence not as the person we may or may not remember but as a representative of what that person evokes in our feelings. The same is true for unknown or uncertain elements in our lives. And it may not be just people but an assortment of critters and environments because they, too, evoke certain associations in our minds.
We don’t have to worry about what dreams mean in their entirety or try to understand them as if they were actual and real. Dreaming is what the sleeping brain does and our attention to them provides us with little in the way of practical application to the real world. That said, dreams do offer us an important glimpse into our ‘subconscious’ mind – a way to grasp symbolically our inner most feelings about some current situation and the relationship we have with it and the people who populate it.
So.
You found this dream disturbing because you attributed your actions to driving people away… people you didn’t want to drive away yet felt obligated by some duty that had the effect of driving people away. There are many possible ‘truths’ to this dream but I suggest you concentrate your own inquiry into the feelings you assign to the various characters and environments and figure out if that interpretation is useful in some practical way. Specifically, are you spending time doing something in your daily life that you feel (at perhaps a subconscious level) is ‘driving people away’ from you? Can you change or affect this behaviour? Maybe by being aware of this feeling you have, you can mitigate whatever it is you are doing in some way for those with whom you care the most so that you find a better balance between whatever it is you feel obligated to do and how you do that around those you feel closest to.
Dreams as guides to how we perceive the world never lie, although the accuracy of how we interpret them is entirely up for grabs. I suspect they are a key process in linking our organized thoughts and behaviours to our unorganized feelings about their effects that we have been able to perceive. Then again, maybe not. But we do know that they are vital to mental health so we need to let them play out as our brains insist they do.
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