Are catholics against dream interpretation?

Question

I remember being young and a domination of christianity was aganist it, but i cant remember which one.

The whole reason im asking is because of my dream post http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aq0UV9FP6ouILumDw5SJk_Tsy6IX?qid=20070512204833AAYdIlI
and im being confirmed next year so Im not sure if the catholic church is against it

Answer 1

Not to my knowledge. Many of the saints experienced dreams that they took to be given them for a reason.

Answer 2

We should remember that St.Joseph had a vivid dream to flee with Mary and the child Jesus into Eygpt and the many documented cases of Saints who had dreams that helped their spiritualty, so I would guess that the church would hardly condemn this concept.
It does however draw the line at superstition where dreams are used to influence people from faith and morals, also it does not give credence to those who would prey on the vunerable by making money from interpreting the dreams of others.

Answer 3

The Catholic Church has not issued any blanket condemnation of dream interpretation, mostly because the Church knows God uses dreams as a venue for visions and revelations.

But I do think you need to be careful in selecting the whom and/or what that is doing the actual dream interpretation.

Under certain illicit circumstances, dream interpretation does constitute divination. Divination is clearly forbidden by the Church.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:

2116 All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.

2117 All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another's credulity.

2138 Superstition is a departure from the worship that we give to the true God. It is manifested in idolatry, as well as in various forms of divination and magic.


...just be careful.

Answer 4

Not at all.

I went to a dream conference and I`ve learned a lot about what we dream. To make it short, the things you see in your dreams are not what you should be focusing on, you should pay attention to how that dream made you feel, if you felt pressured, lost, happy, scared in your dream then you need to identify in your life what is related to that sentiment.

Answer 5

Sometimes people are needlessly paranoid about stuff like that. You shouldn't care if they are against it or not.

Answer 6

no