Assuming the reader knows what a "waking dream" is, I have had a few of those. But one that stands out was in my teen years, after I had my motorcycle wreck and spent a year out of school recovering therefrom. One thing that happened during that time was that I started reading the Bible, and found much of it quite different from what I had thought, or was led to believe about it. This resulted in me withdrawing into my own personal cult for a while, judging my dad's crude humor and my family for the television shows they liked, as examples of my "application." But later, as I was beginning to break out of that cage within a cage [being homebound and alienating myself from the family], I had that waking dream of Jesus standing before by me in my room-- looking much like the common representations of him. He was giving me encouraging words about myself, though I can't remember exactly what the dream figure said, but I remember the voice sounded like
the most perfect diction I could imagine.
I have told this to a very limited number of people. But what I left out is what I'll say now ... 'He' wore glasses. For the record, it was another 10 years or so before I started wearing them. Maybe that was my subconscious telling me it means he does look at me. Anyway, that's the story-- I now think I was just reviewing my thoughts on perfection and judgment.
