I had one of those expansive dreams where I was with Debbie, my wife, at a Christian conference.
A part I recall is where we were in a room together and we needed help to know our way around the site and centre and what services were available. We were deliberating whether to call the helpline which we did in the end and almost missed it. A voice sounded through a little white box on the wall under a window. The Voice sounded tired and could have belonged to a disabled person. We asked how we could leave, not that we wanted to leave. He told us some things which were difficult to hear and very matter of fact.
I had a waking sense that what we were experiencing was heaven. I knew that somehow.
As we were listening to the wall device we were both inside and outside at the same time. Many were gathering in a well spaced out stately home grounds to sing and picnic at the same time in the exspansive grounds. They were all facing one direction. The sound of singing was coming from them and from the direction they were facing. You could see groups of people small and great. The sound of singing was larger than the area and was not lost over the distance. Like there were loudspeakers somewhere but the sound wasn’t mechanical.
There was a small sub scene or a different dream where I had walked through into a kitchen and Colin Bell was there doing washing up. I felt bad I couldn’t stay and help as I had to leave to get home. He was very clean and well dressed and was very content in what he was doing. As I left I saw on a table which was all in white, a large pavlova which was ready to be eaten. I thought I’m going to miss that!
The dream felt like it went on and on and that I can’t remember the beginning or the end even when I had woken up!!! The dream sensation was all stretched out over time.
Whilst I was dreaming I thought I was awake at the same time and I also heard the Holy Spirit say that dreams (or was that heaven?) are to be experienced and are not always to be understood or interpreted.
For this one I may need to explain who Colin Bell is. He has been in my dreams before but not for some time. There are two branches of the meaning Colin according to Behind The Name. The Scottish Irish version has a number of roots one ending up meaning Dove. The other English version comes from Nicholas meaning victory of the people.
Something of those meanings makes me think of the Holy Spirit and how he descended like a dove on Jesus. And then similarly the victory only comes in our lives through Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit at work and this is a sound that rings out true like a bell. His contentment in the dream in serving by doing the washing up is very striking excuse the pun as that’s what a bell does too.
Why Colin and who is he? A man I worked with in the post office who was always rather cheerful. Cheerful sorting and delivering letters or post. What is post? Messages, messages fly forth from all different kinds of people. He is the embodiment of the message and sent in this dream as a divine messenger perhaps?
Regarding the pavlova could this be a taste of heaven to some? (An article about its history here) The word Pavlova is the feminine form of Pavlov, a Russian surname, which is a form of Paul. Paul means small or humble.
Dreams are a form of communication. A language.