I think dreams can come from a variety of places -- some good, some bad, some indifferent. Some come out of our own unconscious minds. Our hidden fears are sometimes revealed in dreams.
I've done a bit of reading on dreaming and memory consolidation. Now, nothing I'm saying should be construed that God never gives dreams to people.
We may have things in our minds from the day that as we sleep, we're sorting all that out, and this sorting is experienced as dreaming. Successions of images and ideas in various interplay in the fantastical environ of our mind. The brain is a very complex and amazing thing!
Ecclesiastes 5
2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
The busier we are, the more we'll dream.
These dreams will reflect what's prominent in our lives. And they will reflect our perceptions and expectations. Dreams that seem to show future events may have a very "right" feel about them, because they may be reflections of our own minds on the subject.
Those who have reasonable Biblical knowledge will know how the Bible frames future events, and may incorporate that into dreams.
That's something that's sometimes struck me about end of the age prophetic dreams, they always show the eschatology of the one dreaming the dream, even though the dreamers have variously different eschatologies.
So why do I never hear of a non-pre-tribber having a pre-trib dream? Or a pre-tribber having a post-trib dream? Just something I wonder.
Anyway, this is why I'm so interested in seeing if someone's dream or prophecy is actually fulfilled.
Actually, upon reflection, I've had several post-trib dreams, very lucid, very powerful, but I've never thought them to be more than dreams. My dreams tend towards lucid, and widely diverse, to say the least!
I think some get irritated with me here for having this standard, and I hope I'm not irritating anyone right now. Hopefully this will say a little more why I think as I do.
Much love!