I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
Acts 2:17

“Copy … sheets … copy.”

“What?” I asked Leslie, who was obviously dreaming, as we lay in bed.

“The sheets must be copied, please,” she replied sternly with eyes still closed as she tossed and turned.

“You’re dreaming,” I said softly.

Her eyes flashed open and she looked around the room for a moment. “What a weird dream.”

“You were probably dreaming about getting a copy of our manuscript made,” I suggested.

“No,” Leslie said, still rubbing the sleep from her eyes. “I dreamed you had painted a beautiful scene on our bedroom sheets and I wanted copies made so we wouldn’t lose it.”

Strange, indeed. Especially since I don’t paint – on sheets or anything else.

Dreams, those mystical fantasies of slumber, are often bizarre and we can’t always make much sense of them. But everybody dreams.

A normal night’s sleep always includes not one but several periods of dreaming.

During dream sleep, the brain consolidates memory, clears our unresolved issues, and helps us forget things we don’t need to remember. It is like the hard drive on your computer that needs cleaning up from time to time. It’s essential for a healthy mind.

Dreams are illustrations from the book
your soul is writing about you.
–Marsh Norman

The key to a good night’s dream? Get enough dream sleep to achieve the benefits. The experts say that means getting more than six hours. Anything less and you’re missing out on several dream periods.

And keep the following in mind:

  • Individuals who dream and remember their dreams heal more quickly from depressive moods and marital conflicts.
  • Talking about your dreams with your spouse can bring insight you can’t get on your own.
  • Research at UC Berkeley shows that couples are more likely to fight when they don’t have dream cycles in their sleep.
  • God sometimes speaks to us in our dreams. “In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men; while they slumber on the bed, then He opens the ear of men and seals their instruction” (Job 33:14).
  • It’s a fact: You’re far more likely to remember your dreams if you write them down as soon as you wake up.

So dream some dreams this week – it’s good for your body and great for the soul of your marriage.

Reflect and Respond

How many hours of sleep do you get and do you typically remember your dreams?

Go ahead, tell us in the comments.

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