In the last days, God says,
    I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
    your young men will see visions,
    your old men will dream dreams.    –Acts 2:17

Ira Milligan, Understanding the Dreams You Dream.

John Paul Jackson, The Biblical Model of Dream Interpretation.

Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience, ch. 7: “Considerations on Dreams, Visions, etc.”

Daniel Jennings, The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley, ch. 9.

Augustin Poulain, Revelations and Visions.

After looking at the dreams and visions recorded by Catholics and Methodists, I’ve come to have a stricter approach towards the selection of dreams to be considered for interpretation. In the traditional Christian approach to dreams, no dream was to be taken seriously or even attempted to be interpreted unless it was laced with strong Biblical, Gospel, and holiness themes. Unfortunately, Jackson and Milligan never pushed in this direction. Like secular dream interpreters, they often considered just about any dream that a person experiences, as one that ought to be interpreted as a secret message from God. Its actually sort of sad seeing him try to interpret dreams like this, which have absolutely no Christ-centered or Gospel related themes in them whatsoever. To call that “Biblical” is quite a stretch. Its not good enough to have a “Biblical system of interpretation,” or a Biblical bias, if the dream itself is not evidently from the God of the Bible. Dreams without Jesus, the cross, angels, the Holy Spirit, the Father, Heaven, Hell, the day of judgment, demons, souls, and just Christian theology, should be highly suspect to be even considered seriously for dream interpretation. –J.B.