Angel Dreams & Visions

Angels, wings, ladders, rivers and white doves each have a dream page, and so do comforting, prophetic, warning and visitation dreams. Three practice pages cover dream journals, lucid dreaming and bedtime meditation.

Religious sources judge an angel in a dream by what the angel did and said. The Talmud says true dreams come "by means of an angel," and the hadith sort dreams into those from God, those from Satan and those from one's own mind.

Hospice and grief studies ask how often a kind of dream happens and what it contains. In a survey of 278 bereaved relatives of hospice patients, 58 percent dreamed of the person who died, and most of those dreams were pleasant or mixed.

Laboratory tests have not settled whether prophetic dreams foresee events, because the best-known positive results were not reliably repeated.

A dream journal is the practical place to begin: diary studies by Michael Schredl and Denholm Aspy found that keeping a log raises dream recall for most people.