Job 4:13 · World English Bible
Job 4:13 Meaning In Thoughts From the Visions
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
What does Job 4:13 mean?
When sleep takes hold and the busy daytime mind lets go, something else in us begins to speak. During the day the reasoning self runs everything and drowns out the quieter voice underneath.
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When sleep takes hold and the busy daytime mind lets go, something else in us begins to speak. During the day the reasoning self runs everything and drowns out the quieter voice underneath. At night that voice finally gets its turn.
This is why dreams can feel stranger and wiser than anything we think while awake. They come from the part of us that never stopped watching, the part that holds what we forgot or refused to know. Sleep loosens the grip of the controlling mind, and in that opening the deeper self sends up its pictures. Paying attention to dreams is how a person learns what the daytime mind keeps drowning out.
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Live Job 4:13 today
- Keep your phone away from the first ten minutes of the morning and let yourself remember whatever you were dreaming. Write down a single image from it, even if it makes no sense.
- Ask someone at dinner or on a call what they dreamed lately. Then just listen to it, without turning it into a joke or a meaning.
- When you are stuck on a decision, stop pushing on it and go for a walk or a drive with nothing playing. Let the quieter part of your mind put forward its version while the planning part is off duty.
What has the quieter part of you been trying to tell you while the loud part keeps talking?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Zhuangzi
He dreamed he was a butterfly, and woke not knowing whether he was a man who had dreamed of a butterfly or a butterfly now dreaming it was a man. The dreaming mind is not a lesser witness than the waking one.
Judaism · the Talmud
A dream left uninterpreted is like a letter that was never opened. Something was sent to you, and it stays unread until you sit with it.
Hinduism · the Upanishads
In dreaming, the self puts aside the borrowed world and builds its own out of its own light. What it makes there shows what it is.
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