Last updated on June 9, 2025
Question: Tell us a little bit about yourself. Do you have an academic background that led you to search for answers to the meaning of dreams, or did you have a personal experience that compelled you to ask questions in search of answers?
Scott: Early in my relationship with Christ, I had an ongoing desire and appetite to hear God’s voice. It was very organic and a natural byproduct of the intimate experiences of God’s presence in my life at that time.
To my surprise, I soon discovered (by His grace) that God was already speaking to me, though I didn’t realize it initially. I expected God to speak in a totally different way, but He had already been speaking to me in my dreams. Prior to this season in my life, I don’t recall having dreams. I don’t remember dreams from my childhood, and I have no memories of any dreams in my life until I powerfully encountered the living Christ.
As soon as I realized this was one way God was speaking to me (it was not unusual to have several dreams a night during this time), I began journaling as part of a process to understand my dreams and their symbolism through prayer and sharing with others. This led me on a journey of study, reflection, meditation, prayer, and working with dreams for some twenty-five years. I have no formal education in psychology or any other tradition, although I am well aware of the many theories, methodologies, and perspectives represented in this field.
Question: Is your book What Every Dream Means based on Scripture?
Scott: What Every Dream Means is based on Scripture. I believe that there are many wonderful principles and truths in Scripture that reveal insights about the topic of dreams and dream interpretation, which have been glossed over or ignored by many.
This would include principles related to working with symbolism and symbolic picture language, which is what we often encounter in dreams. Most people in the Western world do not think in these terms, so Scripture is helpful in changing our perceptions by its use of idioms and various kinds of speech.
As we immerse ourselves in the prophetic and poetic language of Scripture—including parables, hyperbole, similes, and metaphors—our insights deepen, and this becomes crucial for interpreting dreams.
Scripture helps us in other ways, such as validating that God speaks to us in our dreams. We can also expect, as prophesied, that during the end times, dreams will play a significantly more important role globally than ever before in history.
Question: How will What Every Dream Means help me to understand my dreams?
Scott: First and foremost, it will help you gain a relational perspective on dream interpretation rooted in an intimate relationship with the living Christ. I prayed about the title of the book, and one night, as I was drifting off to sleep, I received the title. As it came to me, I knew that I had to write it down before I forgot it.
I’ve had the experience of forgetting a dream or part of a dream because I didn’t write it down. Those previous lessons helped me in this case with the title of the book, and I wrote it immediately before going back to sleep.
In the following days, I searched everywhere and realized that the title What Every Dream Means had never been used. All of that is amazing to me, but in a way, it probably shouldn’t surprise me that God knew all this in advance.
The point I want to make about the title is that it implies several things. Probably the most important thing is that there is someone who knows the meaning of every dream, and it is God. Everything I do to train and help people with their dreams all comes back to this vital dependency upon God and a relational perspective.
That is contrary to the many perspectives on dreams, such as those taught by psychology. Most often, what is taught is a method that does not point to a relationship with the pure source of light and understanding. The book also offers additional ways to help you achieve your dreams.
Lastly, and certainly of great importance to me, is that as you read What Every Dream Means, it will help you receive freely God’s presence by absorbing the anointing that is from Him and that is essential for understanding dreams. This is a key to understanding dreams, which I want people to be aware of, so that the full extent of their impartation can take place in their lives.
Keep in mind, Jesus was identified as “The Anointed One,” which implies a great measure of anointing from the Father and Holy Spirit to accomplish His purpose. So we, too, like Jesus, need the anointing of the Spirit for our purpose in interpreting dreams today.
Question: I can think of several instances in the Bible where God revealed profound truths to someone in a dream. Can you share with us a personal experience dream story, either yours or someone else’s, which is inspirational?
Scott: The dreams that are recorded in Scripture are very profound dreams in that many of them, though not all of them, are what I would call prophetic dreams. They revealed the future of individuals or nations.
That said, there are many kinds of dreams a person can experience, and not all are of this magnitude. Each dream performs a particular function and has value, even though its function may not be, as in the case of the dreams in Scripture, prophetic dreams. Many of the dreams that an individual may have today are intended to help him pray specifically about topics that God is revealing to him personally.
For example, I had a dream where I saw myself kneeling in a meadow that felt like the altitude and atmosphere of the mountains in California. Trees and brush completely surrounded me, and I found myself in a place with no buildings or structures. It was a remote, natural area.
In the clearing where I knelt, it was the break of day, in the early morning hours. The ground was wet with dew, just beginning or early dawn.
I looked in front of me. A man stood not too far away, maybe twenty or thirty yards, on the edge of the clearing. He said, “The wildlife here will never come near a human being.”
As I heard these words, I looked to my right, and there appeared a tiny fawn frolicking very close. Profound energy and happiness exuded from the little fawn as it played in complete freedom. Amazed, I watched, and then from my right and behind me, a doe slowly walked up and rubbed its body against my right shoulder as it passed by. Strangely, I felt as though the doe wanted me to pet it. The dream ended.
When I awoke, I realized the dream contained a very clear message about the things that defy what “man” says. This man—his reasoning, negative words, and logic—was completely defied by what I experienced with the fawn and the doe, both of whom came near. It was a wonderful picture that has been an inspiration and a resource to help me resist listening to all the negative voices around me.
LORILYN: Thanks, Scott, for a great interview.
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