I get what you're saying. Yet at the same time, I believe that if the person receiving the dream is a believer, they will get the interpretation from God. And if they don't have the interpretation right away, they should ask Him for understanding. Sharing with other believers is sometimes good, but not to mass broadcast it because then you get so many varied opinions that it can cloud and blur the true interpretation.
Yes. I would agree with this as well.
I strongly feel that one should only share their dreams at God's leading, and sharing publicly only if they have the interpretation.
Your previous point notwithstanding, this is where we would part company. I have seen numerous people post dreams publicly that I believe without question were meant for the entire body of Christ. Had they not, those dreams would not have seen the light of day. Certainly there can be a lot of confusion created if you have multiple people interpreting it in different directions, but then the same can be said of scripture, and as Paul taught, "There of necessity must be factions among you, that those who are approved of God may be made manifest." In other words, good interpreters (of both the word and dreams for that matter) - authoritative interpreters - will be made manifest to all by their ability to explain things in full, and make sense of the entire picture and not just one sentence or two, or a few symbols here or there without treating the whole thing.
I shared a couple of dreams before with some people and boy, did they butcher and miss the mark! I already knew the interpretation... I was at that time just looking for confirmation.
Lol. In defense, if they were interpreting a dream that was personal to you, then they were at a distinct disadvantage from not knowing your life.
You see, this is what I am talking about when I refer to needing to use the mind. When a believer has a dream about their own personal life, do you know why it is easier for them to interpret it? Because they know their own lives, in great detail. They know their actions, both private and public; they know their own hearts; they know their own history; they know their own relationships and secrets, and failings, and inner desires, and weaknesses and callings and hopes and fears and dreams. They have all this INFORMATION at their finger tips. The outside interpreter does not, and needs to gather it if they would come anywhere close to interpreting a dream accurately. Now if they have a gift of discernment that often comes with interpretation, they tend to pick up on things quickly which the Holy Spirit keys them off on, and I have had this happen to me many times. And btw, I will talk about my own experiences here whether anyone accuses me of "announcing it to the world" or not. One of the hallmarks of the end-time church is that they will move in visions and dreams, and at the expense of being vilified for talking about my own experiences I am going to share what I know on the subject. But what many Christians do not have is a wealthy knowledge about either scripture or Biblical symbolism, and I have seen this many times as well. Along with not having much discernment, they don't understand how symbolism is often used in things like the parables or prophetic books. So those are places where most of the help is needed. You draw them out into helping them figure out parts that they don't get. I've seen it happen with too many people not to believe there is a usefulness to helping people interpret their dreams.
But yes. Just depending on anyone and everyone without thinking things out for themselves is a recipe for disaster.
