Here was what was called the American dream, namely, the effort to build a structure which would be something new in history and to do so in such fashion that God could bless it.

Solomon worshipped before the Ark after his dream in which God promised him wisdom ( 1 Kings 3: 15 ).

Chapters 7-12 contain four visions of Daniel that parallel Nebuchadnezzar ’ s dream in Chapter 2 where the fate of four great empires meet their downfall and are replaced by God ’ s kingdom.

The fifth century Christian historian Sozomen claimed that the relics of Habakkuk were found at Cela, when God revealed their location to Zebennus, bishop of Eleutheropolis, in a dream.

The night before he caught up to him, God appeared to Laban in a dream and warned him not to say anything good or bad to Jacob.

Balaam sent back word that he could only do what God commands, and God has, via a dream, told him not to go.

In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

Schleyer felt that God had told him in a dream to create an international language.

Ishtikara, or dream interpretation, is the only way that Muslims can receive revelations from God after the death of the last Prophet Mohammed.

While those on whom the Spirit had descended were speaking in tongues, the Apostle Peter stood up with the eleven and proclaimed to the crowd that this event was the fulfillment of the prophecy (" I will pour out my spirit ") In Acts 2: 17, it reads: "' And in the last days ,' God says, ' I will pour out my spirit upon every sort of flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy and your young men will see visions and your old men will dream dreams.

Balaam sends back word that he can only do what YHWH commands, and God has, via a nocturnal dream, told him not to go.

He gives, too, the story of Balaam's dream, his being forbidden by God to curse Israel.

Gideon overheard a Midianite man tell a friend of a dream in which God had given the Midianites over to Gideon.

As Smith's skills and strengths become apparent to the nuns, they come to believe that he has been sent by God to fulfill their dream of building a chapel for the townsfolk -- who are Mexican and impoverished -- as the nearest church is miles away.

Cædmon's only known surviving work is Cædmon's Hymn, the nine-line alliterative vernacular praise poem in honour of God which he supposedly learned to sing in his initial dream.

" According to an eyewitness-Daya Mata, a direct disciple of Yogananda, who was head of Self-Realization Fellowship from 1955 – 2010, as Yogananda ended his speech, he read from his poem My India, concluding with the words " Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream God — I am hallowed ; my body touched that sod ".< ref >

In, Jacob, after his visionary dream of Jacob's Ladder and receiving a blessing from God, promises God a tenth,

Second, because Abraham acted on a prophetic vision of what God had asked him to do, the story exemplifies how prophetic revelation has the same truth value as philosophical argument and thus carries equal certainty, notwithstanding the fact that it comes in a dream or vision.

But before he was born, God had appeared to his mother in a dream and told her that she was going to have a boy.

In this poem, written more than twenty years after Tennyson's Sir Galahad, Galahad is " fighting an internal battle between the ideal and the human ", believing that he is like God and that he is able to be a " savior capable of imparting grace ", following a dream in which he saves a dying knight with a kiss.

Later, God came to Abimelech in a dream and declared that taking her would result in death because she was a married woman.

On the same night, he saw himself in dream facing God on the Day of Judgment.

He followed the commands of his dream and marked the shields with a sign " denoting Christ ".

Returning again to camp, Lehi has a dream where he sees The Vision of the Tree of Life, with fruit that is " desirable to make one happy.

According to the Book of Mormon, the prophet Lehi is shown the tree of life in a dream or vision before he leaves Jerusalem, between 600 and 592 BC.

" Lehi furthermore stated that this injunction did not originate with himself, but with the Lord, who had spoken to him on this matter in a dream.

A notable example is " The Ruined Man who Became Rich Again through a Dream ", in which a man is told in his dream to leave his native city of Baghdad and travel to Cairo, where he will discover the whereabouts of some hidden treasure.

Bonnie tells Ribaldi she will not leave him, but he tells her that to abandon the competition would waste all their hard work, and insists that Bonnie forget about him and follow her dream.

Antigonus meanwhile abandons the baby on the Bohemian coast, reporting that Hermione appeared to him in a dream and bade him name the girl Perdita and leave gold and other tokens on her person.

* Ill-favoured Ones, two evil characters CHRISTIANA sees in her dream, whom she and MERCY actually encounter when they leave the Wicket Gate.

A notable example is " The Ruined Man Who Became Rich Again Through a Dream ", in which a man is told in his dream to leave his native city of Baghdad and travel to Cairo, where he will discover the whereabouts of some hidden treasure.

To pursue his Olympic dream, Tisdall had to leave this job and live in a disused railway carriage in an orchard, where he trained by running around the rows of trees.

Her mother's theory that a wife must support her husband in his career comes into play when the author marries a friend of her brother (" Bob ") who soon admits that his dream is to leave his current office job and start a chicken ranch.

Never having given up on his dream, he prepares to tell his father of his decision to leave school and overhears his father mentioning that Roselyn was paid to meet and seduce him.

He arrived at the conclusion that he must leave the gaming industry in order to pursue this dream.

: Toy-like people make me boy-like (...) And everything you got, hoi polloi like Now you're lost and you're lethal And now's about the time you gotta leave all These good people ... dream on.

Although Watanuki is able to meet Yūko through a dream, he decides to continue waiting for her, although he has become able to leave the shop if he wants to.

He had determined to return to Beirut after his three-month " home leave ", but when a co-editor asked him in the kitchen of his Beirut apartment during the course of a farewell party, " Bill, what happened to the dream?

" After 13 years of what can only be described as a dream come true, I have decided that it is time to leave the Backstreet Boys.

Believing his adventures in the Dark World to have been a bad dream he prepares to leave the house only to find Bert looming before the front door.

Restless and depressed, they all eventually leave home to pursue independent lives, crushing Gabriel ’ s dream of moving his family to California.

She explained her retirement, saying: “ I ’ m retiring by choice, because I believe that rabbis should know when to leave and when it ’ s time to inject ‘ newness ’ into synagogue life .” She intends to remain “ a part of the temple family ” as rabbi emerita, adding “ being here has been the fulfillment of my dream to be a congregational rabbi, which is why I went to rabbinic school in the first place .”

Sissi makes the decision to leave and asks Bodo to come with her, telling him of her dream in which they were " brother and sister, father and mother, husband and wife ".

Once he is told his hottest dream was real, Tashi decides to leave the monastery and marries Pema ( Christy Chung ), the daughter of a rich farmer, who was actually engaged with local stonemason Jamayang ( Kelsang Tashi ).

One day Neruda " dreamed about that woman who dream ( ed )" s. Later after Neruda " took his leave ", the narrator met the woman and she said " I dreamed he ( Neruda ) was dreaming about me.

At the " temple ", the children and the Phoenix are honoured guests of a ceremony to celebrate the Phoenix, yet once they leave all the gentlemen believe it to have been a dream.

They achieved their dream by the end of Marsh's first season for the club, however, due to the terms of the insurance claim, Marsh couldn't follow Mølby and his team-mates into league football and had to leave after just twenty-four league appearances in which he hit the net four times.

Each has fulfilled their dream, Kotobuki's is to forget about thievery, and Raimon's is to leave the militia and to live with Kotobuki forever.

Traditionally, Karmapas leave a letter stating the details of their rebirth ( this is an aspect of the special self-recognizing siddhi of the Karmapas ) to assist in the recognition of their future incarnation, and thus the Shamarpa's recognition through a dream has come under scrutiny.

) Partly a spoof of " Shore Leave " ( fantasies coming to life ), as well as " This Side of Paradise " ( crew members refusing to leave ), and even " I, Mudd " ( Ficus and his " dream girl " conversing in extreme technobabble, much like Spock's discussion of " the parabolic intersection of dimension with dimension ").