What Your Dreams Are Trying to Tell You

I had a dream two nights ago that made me feel both scared and grateful.
Before I tell you about the dream,

You know when you have a dream that makes you feel good when you wake up? Your feeling about the dream is positive. The dream was amazing. You were in some beautiful place, or you were with your loved ones. This is the good dream. In my religion, in Islam, good dreams come from God.

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This is the type of dream that makes you feel scared. When you wake up,
you feel afraid. Maybe something bad happened in the dream.
Something bad happened to somebody.
According to my religion, these dreams come from Satan, or Shaitan.
It is recommended that you ignore the dream and don’t talk about it
if it’s really, really bad.

This type is not really bad and not really good. They’re just dreams.
When you wake up, you think, “Wow, that was a weird dream,” or,
“That was interesting.” They’re not scary, and they’re not amazing either.
According to my religion and science, these dreams come from your thoughts and feelings. Maybe you thought about something for a very long time,
and then you had a dream about it.

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Now, let me tell you about my dream last night. And by the way, dreams teach us many, many good lessons. I’ll tell you the lesson I learned from mine.

In my dream, I was with my family in my parents’ house, and I was getting ready to go home to my wife. I was probably one hour away from my home.
But then, all of a sudden, I was in prison. I was in jail.

I was really confused. I was thinking, “My wife is waiting for me at home.
I need to go home.” I didn’t even know why I ended up in jail.
I had no idea what happened.

I asked one of the guards, “What’s happening? Can somebody bail me out?
Can someone pay money to release me so I can go home?”

And he said, “No.”

I got so emotionally shocked. I got really sad. And then the guard said something interesting: “We release people based on their attitude.
If they get angry and mad, then we don’t release them.”

And I’m thinking, “My wife doesn’t even know where I am.
I don’t have my phone to text her.” I was like, “What is happening?”

And then I woke up. I was in my bed.

The lesson I learned immediately when I woke up was gratitude.
I felt so grateful to be home. I didn’t feel sad. I just felt grateful that
I was home, and I was not scared anymore.

In the dream, the prison was actually not that bad. People were nice.
Nobody was fighting. Everybody was kind to each other. And for some reason, every prisoner was Arab. LOL I don’t know why, but it was just so interesting.

What I took away from the dream was gratitude. Being grateful for what you have. In my dream, my home was taken away. My freedom was taken away.
I was away from my loved ones, from people that I loved.
And as soon as I woke up, I felt so grateful to be home.

Do you think it was the good dream, the bad dream, or a dream from my own thoughts?

Reply to this email or comment below to let me know what you think.
I’d love to hear your thoughts about dreams.

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Thanks for reading,

Ziyad at theenglishzone.co