IN THIS Department will be given interpretations of dreams and visions of those needing to know their inner meaning. We reserve for it only those of special interest and helpfulness.

I DREAMED I was home where I was born and raised. I seemed to be in my manhood and walking on the road to the nearest town, when suddenly I heard a strange noise. Looking about I saw a monster snake in a defiant attitude a little way off in a field. I picked up some stones and threw them at the snake, and then the snake made for me. As in all my dreams for about a year past when danger assailed, I raised myself off the ground just like a bird and flew away, the snake coming after me also in the air; but I finally succeeded in shaking him off.

I kept on flying over mounds and a big lake, always being followed and persecuted, however, by men on the ground and in a big boat; but I reached the other side safely. There I passed over a large forest of big trees, always flying but still followed by the men on the ground. Finally one man shot me, wounding me so I had to give up the fight and the flight.

Realizing the futility of further struggle, I said a short prayer, asking the Father to receive my soul, as I had done the best I could. Then I floated to the ground. When I got low enough, the man who had shot me jumped at me, ripping the clothes off my body. (Threat at the strangest part) I looked straight in his eyes, seemingly blinding him. And I awoke, my heart beating heavily.

In your dream, through the power within you, you found you could rise above the snaky thoughts that was trying to get to and hurt you, and above all the other selfish thoughts symbolized by the men on the ground who were trying to persecute you. Of course those thoughts would follow you wherever you went; but when you fearlessly stopped and turned to God, and He enabled you to look squarely at those thoughts and to see them for what they were, the Light of the Truth so blinding that the fear of them and of the danger you felt disappeared, just as does all darkness of ignorance when the Light of true Knowing comes.

ONE NIGHT last week I had a dream (?). I had a similar one once before. I walked into a hospital where I saw a lot of people, some with legs or arms cut off and some with half a body. In the first dream it was horrible, and their eyes followed me about the room imploring me to help them. And a terrible Doctor stood before me and said, “This is the work of the Anti-christ.”