Sinning? In your dreams...

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Nah...I think it's because your very pretty. Now that your photo is on open forum you'll never know one way or the other. Guys are suckers for pretty girls.

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You're very sweet, but I've got to tell you that I couldn't get a date to save my life for many, many years. I was not, as they say, a guy magnet. Quite the opposite.Too many far prettier girls around.

Yeah, well, obviously you have it now, so stop using your sexual attractiveness as a weapon in a logical argument.I know these tricks.

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Yeah, well, obviously you have it now, so stop using your sexual attractiveness as a weapon in a logical argument.

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I know these tricks.

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If only such measures really worked...

About you dying - then the unknown. This happens to fall into the realm of nightmare. But for all intents and purposes you have decided that the unknown is simply nothingness. Why does your dream state disagree with what you actually beleive to be the situation. I wouldn't be afraid of nothingness - there is 'nothing' to be afraid about.

One would rather exist, even in pain, than not exist.**(source withheld)Edited by robinrohan, : No reason given.

Hi iano, Did you sin IN your dream, or was your dream just revealing the lust that had already taken root in your soul?"For God speaketh once, Yea twice, though man regardeth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, And sealeth their instruction, That he may turn a man from his ways, And hide pride from man;" Job 33:14Three times this year, I have consecrated myself to God in prayer and reading His word, and each time I've gone through a purification in my dreams.In January, I dreamed 3 nights in a row. The first night my dreams were dark, I was tempted to sin, and I gave in. I woke up feeling kind of disgusted. I repented of that lust. The next night I had a dream where I was tempted to sin, but refused, and the temptation turned into a toilet. I was tempted again and again, but each time it got easier to refuse. The third night I had three of the most beautiful pure dreams I have ever had.Again in May, I prayed before I got in bed that God would give me a dream to reveal to me any areas of my life that I needed to give over to Him. After I prayed that, I felt this paralyzing dizzying weight on my chest. The room started spinning. I'd felt this in the past on occasion when I was sick, but I wasn't sick now. I prayed, rebuked it and it immediately left, but after I went to sleep, I had all kinds of dark dreams where temptations were flooding in. I fought hard, but my dreams kept getting darker and louder and uglier and more disgusting until I woke up and was afraid to go back to sleep because things were going downhill in a hurry.So God can definately use dreams to show us what's going on in our soul either symbolically or literally. I think if we give in to sin in our dreams, we've already given in to it in our soul even though we haven't in our body. The enemy wants to use this to discourage us, and make us feel filthy, but God uses the enemy to reveal areas of our life we need to give over to Him.

Failing in dreams is generally related to insecurity or stress - I've never seen it attibuted to the concept that it's a decent into hell.

You have now.

Ian is making a distinction between Roman Catholicism and his version of Christianity. This is a typical move of his. He hasn't replied to your point nor is he really refuting it he is just slipping a dig in at Catholicism and that his is the only true Christianity so Western Culture is not yet steeped in it.Of course historically Christianity has deep roots in Ireland. This is just more of Ian's not clever annoying word games that he seems to feel constitute argument. Possibly because they pass for such in the pubs or churchs he frequents? Or just his imagination?Point to you Schraf.lfen

depends on how close they are to closing time!Edited by arachnophilia, : (ugly topic line. go away.)

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What aren they trying to say? Do they need more bread crumbs?

I missed this post. What you say has indirect merit. That is to say once we are awake we distort our dreams in memory by or cognitive schemas.This is exactly what people do when they try to interpret some one elses dreams. They distort the (already distorted) description of the dream with their own cultural mellieux.Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, Volume 16, Number 1, 2002 Dreams as an Unappreciated Therapeutic Avenue
for Cognitive-Behavioral TherapyHarold E. DoweikoModern neurobiological findings demonstrate that the theory at the heart of psychoanalysis is not viable; indeed, modern neurobiology argues that dreams are nothing more than "noise" created by the brain during the process of neuronal activation and suppression. Modern thinking therefore calls into question the utility of any dream theory that rests on psychoanalytic principles. Cognitive-behavior therapists can nonetheless build on contemporary neurobiological theories of dreams in their clinical work. This article argues that while the dreaming process itself lies outside of the range of cognitive-behavior therapy, the dreamer's recall and interpretation of the dream occurs in the normal waking state. The individual's reported memories of the dream are therefore subject to the same cognitive distortions apparent in other dimensions of their cognitive lives. Cognitive Therapy Association

In all likelyhood this was a hypnogogic hallucination. When you nod off your head goes slack and tilts. This make you think you are falling or stepping off a curb or some such. One will often 'startle' awake.

As if it were yours to award. It has little to do with 'her' brand or 'my' brand of Christianity. The Land of Saints and Scholars is about as representive of Ireland in recent times as are red-haired kids riding turf-laden donkeys. Its been many a year too since I saw a garden festooned with plastic leprauchans. The scene is the ubiquitous Irish pub-quiz where the contestants are of my own or my parents generation.Q: What is the gospel? "Er Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?Q: Why did Jesus die? "Beause the Romans crucified him!"Q: Is the Pope a Christian? "Er...um...can you read that again?"If that is what constitutes "steeped in Christianity" for you then I suppose any path you can think of at all does indeed lead to the summit.

We'll await Faiths answer in which I predict her head to lay on a pillow before falling asleep. And that there was nowhere for it tilt to. Can one fall off the ground?