Dreams - BahaiTeachings.org https://bahaiteachings.org/tag/dreams/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:26:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Animal Dreams, and What They Mean https://bahaiteachings.org/animal-dreams-and-what-they-mean/ https://bahaiteachings.org/animal-dreams-and-what-they-mean/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=30542 Some BahaiTeachings.org readers, after reading my recent essay called Dreams and Visions of the Soul, wondered about human dreams and how they compare to animal dreams. They left these comments...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/animal-dreams-and-what-they-mean/feed/ 3 Déjà vu: Our Stunning Dreams of Discovery https://bahaiteachings.org/deja-vu-stunning-dreams-discovery/ https://bahaiteachings.org/deja-vu-stunning-dreams-discovery/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=33703 We’ve all been through this: you go somewhere, and even though you’ve never been there before, you know you’ve been there before. Or you have a new experience, meet a...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/deja-vu-stunning-dreams-discovery/feed/ 8 Déjà Vu: Do Dreams Predict the Future? https://bahaiteachings.org/deja-vu-do-dreams-predict-the-future/ https://bahaiteachings.org/deja-vu-do-dreams-predict-the-future/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=24860 We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time—of...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/deja-vu-do-dreams-predict-the-future/feed/ 37 Do Dreams Prove We Have Souls? https://bahaiteachings.org/dreams-prove-souls/ https://bahaiteachings.org/dreams-prove-souls/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=34833 Do Dreams Prove We Have Souls?Baha’is believe dreams prove that we each possess more than merely our tangible, material life—that we all have an eternal life latent within us: … reflect upon the perfection of...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/dreams-prove-souls/feed/ 3 Can You Trust Your Dreams? https://bahaiteachings.org/can-you-trust-your-dreams/ https://bahaiteachings.org/can-you-trust-your-dreams/#respond Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=24848 can I trust my dreams?Imagine this: you’re a physicist struggling with a major new theory of how the universe works, and you find the answer in a dream. You’re a novelist looking for a...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/can-you-trust-your-dreams/feed/ 0 The Science and the Soul of Dreaming https://bahaiteachings.org/the-science-and-the-soul-of-dreaming/ https://bahaiteachings.org/the-science-and-the-soul-of-dreaming/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=24821 The-Science-and-the-Soul-of-DreamingDo you dream? Yes, you certainly do, the sleep researchers all tell us. Whether you remember what you dreamed when you wake up or not, every human being dreams. Even...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/become-lucid-dreamer/feed/ 9 Do Revelations Begin in Dreams? https://bahaiteachings.org/revelations-begin-dreams/ https://bahaiteachings.org/revelations-begin-dreams/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:00:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=34798 Do Revelations Begin in Dreams?Dreams have played a major role in religion—in fact, mystic dreams often accompany the inception of a new Faith: … the soul-shaking experience of Moses when confronted by the Burning...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/revelations-begin-dreams/feed/ 2 The Role That Dreams Play in our Lives https://bahaiteachings.org/the-role-that-dreams-play-in-our-lives/ https://bahaiteachings.org/the-role-that-dreams-play-in-our-lives/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=75383 In my dream Abdu’l-Baha, the son and successor of Baha’u’llah, the prophet and founder of the Baha’i Faith, said in a very stern tone of voice “Get out of the...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/the-role-that-dreams-play-in-our-lives/feed/ 4 A Spiritual Guide to the Dream World https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-guide-dream-world/ https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-guide-dream-world/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=62392 We spend nearly one-third of our lives sleeping and we can’t function physically without it. But I’ve often wondered if there is also a spiritual reason we need to sleep...

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