Hello everyone,
I hope you all are having a good week so far.
God led me to pray over some of my older dreams recently and He told me to share this one.
Please join me in praying over it.
Blessings,
SW
On June 11, 2021, I had a dream of a mom, dad, and their two children in a small café within a city. I couldn’t see the faces of the kids since there were large black cubes around their heads. I knew that the kids were playing video games that were entrancing them. The kids could still walk and see normally while playing the video games. I saw the family’s expensive luxury SUV parked outside the front door of the restaurant.
End of Dream
Interpretation
Black is often symbolic within dreams as darkness and evil. In this case, the minds of the children are so entranced by the dark video games that they are hardly living in reality. The eyes, ears, and minds of the children are encapsulated by a virtual reality (VR) that alters their perception of true reality. VR can be seen as the metaverse and the black boxes are seen as virtual reality devices such as Oculus VR.
The vast majority of video games are created to be addictive in order to attract a larger audience of gamers and to keep them hooked. Although most video games have addictive qualities, there are outliers such as educational and Bible-based games that are conducive to learning.
When interviewed about if video game developers design games to be addictive, Jason Kapalka, co-founder of casual game company PopCap stated, “Yes, totally. That’s the main goal you have when you design a game.”
Common addictive hooks in video games are seen through reaching high scores, defeating other players, online relationships, and role-playing as imaginary characters. The aspect of accomplishment is emphasized which makes gamers think that they are accomplishing things, but the achievements are only virtual.
The fact that these parents allowed their children to be completely living in this alternate reality shows their lack of discernment and care regarding the manipulation and addictive nature of the game system. Lastly, the family’s expensive SUV is symbolic of the family’s high level of wealth. Virtual reality can be expensive, so it shows how children in more affluent families are more likely to be playing with these devices.
We need to pray that deceptive attacks within video games and/or virtual reality would be released from the minds of children and that both parents and children would have their eyes opened to the addictive and controlling qualities found within the games.
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This is a powerful dream, and O appreciate you sharing it here.
I would like to give some thoughts I have had on it after reflecting for some time.
#1 – Those Black Boxes
The children with the black boxes appeared to function normally
to everyone else except you were given eyes to see the black box around them. The box is black and seems to represent the distortion of reality they have experienced – it is so strong that it has enveloped their entire head and therefore they are unable to perceive reality correctly so long as the black box persists over their eyes, ears and mind. It distorts every single thing that comes to them.
#2 – The Fake “Good Life”
The parents think they are living the good life. What I picture is parents who actually believe that the purpose of life is to have nice things, have kids, and do fun stuff with them and their nice things. I don’t know where you live, but this is the belief of the purpose of life for most Americans, even (especially?) self-professed Christians.
#3 Video Games
Now, the video games. Hey, I grew up loving video games. They never did me any good though, and I can tell you they are worthless for the most part.
But I will tell you something else I’ve noticed through the years with them.
They have gotten much better, much more compelling, and much more likely to entrance a person. I’d like to point out that I believe in your dream the video games represent the addiction to being filled with meaningless entertainment all of the time. One of the nasty bits to video games in particular is you actually accomplish things in the game, and it fools you into believing you have actually accomplished something. This is a devious and devilish trick of the enemy.
# Conclusion
In America, most people have already reached the point of delusion where they literally have no idea the purpose and goals of our lives are. They are completely backwards in their understanding of what is important and what a person ought to seek after.
They are living in a state of complete denial of reality while their own beloved children even have giant black boxes changing their identity and distorting their own view of everything all while continuing to believe they are living the “good life”.
I hope to God some of these people will listen to our warnings as we try to explain things to them and point them to Jesus.
They have gotten much better, much more compelling, and much more likely to entrance a person. I’d like to point out that I believe in your dream the video games represent the addiction to being filled with meaningless entertainment all of the time. One of the nasty bits to video games in particular is you actually accomplish things in the game, and it fools you into believing you have actually accomplished something. This is a devious and devilish trick of the enemy.
Yes, I agree. Thanks for sharing Stasvacs. I am going to update my post with the addiction aspect.
Hi Ben,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the interpretation. I agree with your key points and I am going to update my post, hopefully this week.
Blessings 🙂
Hi Silent Warrior, I hope it’s ok if I offer another perspective. There are metaphors in your dream that make me believe this is about the crypto market. In my own dream language children and babies represent coins because cryptos are a younger asset class. (as compared to equities or commodities) I see this widely used in other people’s dreams as well. Your dream takes place in the city (bullish setting). Cafe’s and restaurants can represent a trade opportunity because that is where meals (trades) are offered. This was a bullish trade since it’s a nice vehicle. However, the SUV is parked which is to say ‘park the trade’ because this bullish move is coming to an end. The Lord often gives us a few days to do that but not always. The color black for me is bearish as are squares/cubes which is surrounding the head. I would interpret the warning as the bearish move is coming. I often get a negative or warning feeling for an upcoming bearish move. On dream date BTC was around $37k and and five days later peaked at $40k. Then began a large drop to $29,900 so this was useful and helpful revelation. I routinely receive “video” and other “v” words to represent a “V” market pattern. That tells me the market will move up first to set up for the down move then recovery.
Market dreams can be very diverse. I am often amazed how clever and creative Holy Spirit is. There doesn’t have to be an overt reference to a particular coin or price target in order for it to be a crypto dream. In fact those type of dreams are in the minority for me and I am a heavy dreamer. Your dream is a good example of how the Lord gives micro guidance like this to help in your day to day trading. It’s also not uncommon for a message like that to serve a dual purpose – one of which you already shared. Blessings.
Thanks for sharing your crypto interpretation, Faith. I did not take it as a crypto related dream, but I understand the symbols that you talked about. Feel free to email me if you would like and we could talk more about crypto trading.
Thanks for sharing your dream!
It’s truly a difficult time to be a parent. How do we protect our children from the mountain of readily available content that we understand to be harmful? There are no easy answers. I join you in praying for parents who have to make these types of decisions every day.
Two comments/questions for you related to your words here:
“The fact that the parents allow the children to play the games and live in this alternate reality shows their lack of discernment and care regarding the manipulation and well-being of their children.”
I appreciate your concern for parents and their children and am curious to hear more about your perspective on this.
Thanks!
B Friendly
Hi B Friendly,
Of course!
Thanks for joining me in prayer.
I believe Books, TV, Movies, Smartphones, Social Media, Board Games, VR, and video games can be used in both positive and negative ways.
My intention was to focus on the harmful side of VR and video games for this dream.
The main point I was seeking to address in the interpretation was the fact that the parents were allowing their children to live within the virtual reality of the video games and not be present within reality.
I completely agree that we should be careful when making value judgements on how others act and raise their children.
For this statement below,
“The fact that the parents allow the children to play the games and live in this alternate reality shows their lack of discernment and care regarding the manipulation and well-being of their children.”
I meant to have my interpretation centered on the parents who allow their kids to be living in fake reality. I believe there is a difference between being a user of VR/video games and actually living in a virtual world.
My intention was not to group the parents allowing their children to be living in video games/VR with other parents who allow their children to play video games and/or VR.
I am going to reword my interpretation, as I see it has come across slightly unclear.
Thanks for sharing your insight. I appreciate it.
Blessings,
SW