What is the function of dreams according to Christianity? Various people claim to have seen Jesus reveal himself to them in dreams.
We also know from the OT that God may use dreams to communicate a prophecy of the future.
What is the general thought of the function of dreams when none of these things occur? A natural phenomenon of the human body?
In the Bible, they often mention visions as prophecies or a supernatural appearance by Jesus or other biblical figures. They give the person receiving the vision a sense of spiritual clarity and revelation. Evelyn Underhill mentions these visions as &quot;Corporeal - A supernatural manifestation of an object to the eyes of the body. It may take place in two ways: either a figure really present strikes the retina and there determines the physical phenomenon of the vision, or an agent superior to man directly modifies the visual organ and produces in the composite a sensation equivalent to that which an external object would produce.&quot; You can read more about this phenomenon on Wikipedia: Vision (spirituality).