Let me preface this by stating that I am a Christian and I believe Jesus Christ to be God the Father made flesh.
Now…
We know Jesus slept. And due to the human mind’s built-in processes, he had to also experience REM sleep for part of each sleep period.
I find the idea of Jesus’s dreams to be quite intriguing. God became flesh and experienced the entire range of human experience, and I believe that includes dreams.
However, that doesn’t mean that he experienced them in the same way as most of us dream (most of us not on this forum anyway ).
Dreams have obvious importance throughout scripture, so it is curious that nothing is really revealed to us about the content of Jesus’s dreams, or the way in which he dreamed.
Obviously, with the gospel being delivered as 2nd hand accounts, and although believed to be the word of God, the authors didn’t have access to that part of Jesus’s human experience unless he explicitly told them about it. And from the snapshots of his life that did get recorded, there is not much to go on.
So I am wondering if Jesus used his REM periods of sleep to directly commune with the Father. Certainly, in prayer, he had this ability, but it was more meditative, while still being aware of his surroundings. But in his dreams, he no longer had to bother with the external distractions of sensory inupt. Instead, he had open to him the full virtual senses that the brain creates as part of the virtual environment of our dreamworld.
This, to me, creates an incredible potential.
I believe Jesus would have had the self-awareness to become fully conscious in his dreams about his purpose and his true reality, and not bumble along as part of some convoluted plot as most of us do each night when we dream. I believe He was still in control. And along with that control came the ability to choose what happened in his dreamworld.
What are the implications of these kinds of thoughts for other lucid dreamers who believe in Jesus?
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