After reading Alison’s post at “Thin Places” (which happens to be a really wonderful post – go read it!) I began thinking about “thin places.”
Thin places are moments in time space where we are closer to having an encounter with God and the spirit realm. I often wonder if in our dreams we often have thin places where we can have deep questions answered and can be reached by God. It sometimes can feel like a gateway between two realms.
I have had two really full-on spiritual dreams. One was when I was eighteen; I dreamt that a spirit went into me and I went to hell. There was no-one there, no actual fire consuming my flesh although I could see flames all over my body and the sound of burning fire filled my ears. The actual fear, pain and torment though came from the utter loneliness of hell. It was relationally desolate and I began to scream out the name of Jesus. I was then taken to a path where I was walking hand in hand with Jesus. I knew when I woke up it was more than a dream resulting from too much consumption of cheese (damm that tryptophan!) but a warning from God. I was at a cross-roads in my life and when I retold the dream to my parents a few nights later I was shaking with the gravity of the dream.
The other dream was coming face to face with demons. They were looking at me, I wanted to look away and to break their gaze but I couldn’t. I have never felt such deep, penetrative HATE in all my life. The hate in their eyes could actually rip the flesh from my body. It was terrifying. I had a new perspectative of where I fitted in the food chain from their perspective after that. And the scripture that states that the “enemy is a roaring lion waiting to devour us” made a lot more sense.
So are dreams thin places where God and other spirits can communicate with us? What are your experiences of dreams?
You can learn so much from animals. They sense stuff that is beneath the surface. Makes me 
