I too have disturbing nightmares - often I get them when I'm really stressed or ill. I've dreamed some fairly weird things over time and have even kept a dream diary and my conclusion after studying it is that nothing -but nothing- that happens in my dreams is new information. Everything I dream can be described as a recursion of events, experiences and thoughts that I have had (usually) recently.
I suspect that unresolved psychological issues may underlie. Was the message that you feel you experienced in your nightmare unexpected? Perhaps you felt on some level as a Christian that you did deserve to go to hell thereby explaining the dream - who knows? maybe not even yourself.
My main concern with the OPs line of reasoning in justifying the dream is this:
I speculate based on this that you stressed yourself out to such an extent over such a long period of time that you triggered your nightmare yourself - your subconscious gave you exactly what you were expecting.
The two questions that need to be asked are then these:
1) Why is it that you think God has shown himself to you when if you think about it he has shown you nothing tangible at all - why not show you a real life burning bush for instance or burn his name in the bonnet of your car with lightning? Basically something that can't be mistaken for, or explained as something else?
2) If you at some point accept this may have just been a dream why is it that some part of you believes that you deserve to burn in Hell? Do you think that is a healthy way to feel?
I suspect that unresolved psychological issues may underlie. Was the message that you feel you experienced in your nightmare unexpected? Perhaps you felt on some level as a Christian that you did deserve to go to hell thereby explaining the dream - who knows? maybe not even yourself.
My main concern with the OPs line of reasoning in justifying the dream is this:
(November 5, 2012 at 3:44 pm)Drich Wrote: This was the result of me Ask, Seeking, and Kicking down the door (over and over and over again) with an arrogant challenge that God show Himself to me. I was very angery for a very long time.
I speculate based on this that you stressed yourself out to such an extent over such a long period of time that you triggered your nightmare yourself - your subconscious gave you exactly what you were expecting.
The two questions that need to be asked are then these:
1) Why is it that you think God has shown himself to you when if you think about it he has shown you nothing tangible at all - why not show you a real life burning bush for instance or burn his name in the bonnet of your car with lightning? Basically something that can't be mistaken for, or explained as something else?
2) If you at some point accept this may have just been a dream why is it that some part of you believes that you deserve to burn in Hell? Do you think that is a healthy way to feel?
