{"id":24457,"date":"2026-03-11T16:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/why-its-important-to-remember-your-dreams\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:18:17","slug":"why-its-important-to-remember-your-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/prayer\/how-to-pray\/why-its-important-to-remember-your-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It&#8217;s Important to Remember Your Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God speaks through dreams. We know that from many biblical stories. How did Jacob know what his future would be? Through a dream\u2014with angels ascending and descending on a ladder. How did Joseph know about the Child that Mary was carrying? An angel came to him in a dream. How did the <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/faith-prayer-devotions\/stories-of-faith-faith-prayer-devotions\/5-biblical-dreams-that-made-christmas-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wise men know to avoid Herod <\/a>on their return to the East? A dream.<\/p>\n<p>But what about today? <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/miracles\/the-big-question-does-god-speak-to-us-in-our-dreams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some will say God no longer works this way.<\/a> I would beg to differ. Witness the wisdom of the great Carl Jung and his contributions to the valuable practice of psychotherapy. Dreams are a way of the unconscious to speak to us. They can guide us to life-saving realizations and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>When I bring up the subject, people often say, \u201cI don\u2019t ever remember my dreams.\u201d I used to agree with them. What dreams could I ever recall when I woke up? Few\u2026if any. But in the last few years, I\u2019ve taken a few steps to reverse that. Here they are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<em>  Write your dreams down.<\/em><\/strong> I used to type anything I remembered, even vaguely, into my phone in the morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/life-advice\/10-tips-to-help-you-start-and-keep-a-dream-journal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Now I keep a paper dream journal<\/a> next to my bed. When I wake up in the middle of the night, with a dream in my head, I scribble it down in the journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoesn\u2019t that keep you up at night?\u201d some ask. On the contrary, <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/miracles\/gods-grace\/how-your-dreams-can-help-you-sleep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it helps me get back to sleep <\/a>when I do wake up. As I put myself back into bed, pulling the sheets over my head, I close my eyes and visualize the dream I was in. Bingo. I\u2019m back to snoring. (Okay\u2026I don\u2019t actually hear myself snore, but my good wife says I do. Not for nothing do we both keep earplugs handy!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)<em>  Look at what you wrote<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong> Sometimes my midnight scrawl, admittedly, is hard to read. I\u2019m best able to decipher the words first thing in the morning. I look at the handwritten sentences or phrases and type them into my computer. That gives me an opportunity to <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/miracles\/how-to-interpret-your-dreams-biblically\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reflect on the dream.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other night I wrote, \u201cGo to visit family in Jerusalem.\u201d Do we have relatives in the Holy Land? Not at all. But this sure felt like a nudge about taking prayerful consideration of what our holy mentors have to say, including the Holy Family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3)<em>  Pray through a dream.<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019ll look at what I\u2019ve written down and <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/miracles\/how-to-decipher-your-most-puzzling-dreams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">might have no recollection of the dream<\/a> I\u2019ve described. But God certainly does. I linger on a phrase and close my eyes, trying to picture it. Jerusalem, say. Or family. Associations come up. Images. Part of what the dream was communicating.<\/p>\n<p>As the prophet Joel said (in a verse that\u2019s repeated in the book of Acts), \u201cI will pour out my spirit upon everyone; your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions.\u201d (Joel 2:28)<\/p>\n<p>Not all dreams are earth-shattering, but some are. 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