The dreams a person has on the eve of a holiday are very different from ordinary everyday night visions. Since hoary antiquity, people have had a strong belief in the great power and peculiarity of dreams dreamed before church holidays. In particular, a large number of signs and beliefs are associated with dreams before Easter - a very important day in the life of Orthodox people. In this article we will talk about the features of dreams before this significant date.
Do Maundy Thursday dreams come true or not?
The very word “Maundy Thursday” is associated with cleansing the body and putting one’s home in order. On Maundy Thursday before Easter, according to ancient customs, it is customary to bathe, do general cleaning in your home and wash dirty clothes. There is a belief that those whose homes are dirty during Maundy Thursday will live in dirt and quarrel throughout the next year.
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But Clean Thursday is notable not only for the global cleansing of your living space, but also for the high probability of prophetic dreams that you may have at this time. Therefore, pay special attention to your night dreams, and also do not neglect the signs that higher powers often send you at this time.
How to Avoid Negative Predictions
To protect against illnesses and troubles on Good Friday, before dawn, corners and doors in the house were wiped with a new towel. They hid it in a closet and kept it all year. It was believed that such a towel has healing powers and serves as a talisman to attract good luck.
The ashes were raked out of the oven, poured into a cloth bag, and tied in a knot. She protected the house from troubles. Some used this ash to treat alcoholism. The contents of the bag were poured out at the crossroads, reciting the spell three times: “Just as ash does not sprout, and sprouts do not produce petals, and from petals do not produce fruits, so the servant of God (name) will not take wine into his mouth: neither on Sunday, nor on Saturday, nor on Friday , not on Thursday, not on Wednesday, not on Tuesday, not on Monday. Amen. Just as this ash does not fill a spring, does not sing like a nightingale, so the servant of God (name) will not drink green wine. Amen".
To ensure that peace and harmony reigned in the house, and troubles were avoided, housewives baked 2 small round loaves of bread. Before kneading the dough, they said the words: “Lord, save, preserve, defend. Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen". One was divided among household members, the second was hidden behind an icon until the next year.
Prophetic dream before Easter
Believers are convinced that throughout the week before the great holiday of Easter, they may have dreams that provide information about future events.
If on the very night of Easter you had an unusual dream, you may have thoughts: will it come true? Most Orthodox Christians are confident that the days before Easter are a supernatural time, and all dreams that occur during this time are classified as prophetic. But at the same time, there is a certain classification of night visions, which we will consider in more detail later.
How to take communion after Easter on Bright Week
Taking communion on Bright Week is allowed and even recommended; this is stated in the rules of the Ecumenical Council. These recommendations advise the laity to undergo the ritual daily during the week after Easter. Now this is impossible, so within 7 days you need to find at least one and have time to attend the service.
If a Christian has spent the entire period of Lent in prayer and complete abstinence from impurity, gluttony and adultery, it is advised to take communion on an empty stomach, but without fasting on Easter. At Matins on Monday after Easter, before the liturgy, the Paschal canon of the hours of Easter and the Follow-up to Communion is read. It is not necessary to receive communion on Holy Week. The main thing is that the parishioner should not have serious sins without repentance.
Attention!
The need for confession before communion is determined by the parish confessor. If the clergyman considers this process necessary, one should not insist otherwise.
Bright Week is the seven days following the main Orthodox holiday of Easter. Each of them has its own significance in the Orthodox Church. Each date, as well as the days of Holy Week, has its own explanations - the commandments state exactly how lay believers should spend this day. The main thing at this time is to be in an exalted mood; one must rejoice in the victory of Jesus in the darkness, while not being carried away by earthly sins. This is the best period for confession before the Lord and communion.
Varieties of prophetic dreams before Easter
Dream experts have conventionally divided dreams that occurred on the eve of the Resurrection of the Lord into 3 subcategories:
- Category 1 - in a dream you re-experience what you actually experienced on the day before the dream;
- Category 2 – prophetic night visions;
- Category 3 – dreams sent from above by demonic entities.
With the first category, everything is basically clear, but we will dwell in more detail on the last two options.
Message from angels in a dream
Even hardened atheists are firmly convinced that our lives are controlled by two opposing forces - good and evil, which are inextricably linked with one another.
Dream interpreters express their opinion that Easter dreams can be sent from above, both by good and evil forces. A person has the opportunity to try to perform an analysis himself in order to understand what type of dream he encountered last night. But in most cases, doing this on your own is quite problematic.
Religious interpreters believe that dreams dreamed on the eve of major church holidays come true either in the first half of the day, or are realized in life over the next 365 calendar days.
Demonic night visions
It is very difficult to talk about such dreams. Atheists tend to ignore them, and most Orthodox Christian believers try to spend the night before Easter in church. Although, of course, this does not mean at all that higher powers will not send them a special dream in the morning, when they return home and lie down for a little nap after the night service.
It should immediately be noted that most interpreters of night dreams are convinced that on the eve of such a great divine holiday, dark entities cannot negatively affect human life. And if a sleeping person saw something very unpleasant in a dream, this means that higher powers are simply trying to warn him about something.
Be that as it may, it is worth paying special attention to such a dream, because it may contain useful hints and predictions regarding your future.
Church ministers express the opinion that on Easter Eve, a demon can penetrate people’s night dreams, pretending to be your loved one. He will try in every possible way to direct the person in the wrong direction. Therefore, it is important to treat such dreams with extreme caution.
Easter week, what is it?
According to the church calendar, Easter week (Bright Week) is all festive. On Wednesday and Friday, fasting is canceled, so it constitutes one holiday, and each of its days is called Bright. Previously, stories were widely circulated in Russia that Easter week was one day - after the resurrection of Christ, the sun did not set for eight days. The first two days it stood in the east, the next three at noon (zenith), two at sunset, and on the eighth it set.
In large, and especially monastic churches, throughout the entire Easter week, after the liturgy, “artos” (translated from Greek as “bread”) is carried around the temple with a procession of the cross. For this purpose, large bread is specially baked with the image of a cross with a crown of thorns - a symbol of victory over death. It is also possible to depict the image of the Resurrection of Christ. Artos, symbolizing Jesus Christ, was consecrated before the end of the liturgy on Easter Sunday. On Saturday of Easter week, bread is distributed to believers.
The Holy Resurrection of Christ - Easter - the holiday of holidays. I was born in Sarapul - this is the third largest city in Udmurtia, standing on the banks of the Kama River and translated from Chuvash its name means “sterlet”. Since Soviet times, we have had a tradition - to end the Easter week with the celebration of Fomin Resurrection (in 2021 it is May 9). During the atheistic times, out of 21 Sarapul churches, only one survived - the Church of the Resurrection of Christ. For him, Easter is also a patronal holiday. The bishop usually came to Sarapul on Fomino Sunday. Even now, when there are more churches, quite a lot of residents of Udmurtia, Perm Territory, Bashkiria, and Tatarstan come to Sarapul specifically for the Resurrection Church at the end of Easter week.
On the eve of the holiday
Traditionally, Easter among Orthodox Christians is considered the biggest holiday, which overshadows even the Nativity of Christ or the Epiphany. This is a bright celebration when Jesus Christ resurrected and ascended to heaven to unite with his father.
It is noteworthy that Easter is celebrated every year on different dates - its celebration falls on the first Sunday after the new moon. All night visions that you had on the eve of the divine resurrection can be prophetic; you will just need to interpret them correctly.
Dreams about the Divine Holiday
Next we will look at the most popular options for night dreams that you had on the eve of Easter with their interpretation.
- Celebrating Easter in a dream - most of these dreams are devoid of any special meaning or foreshadow positive events in your life.
- On the eve of Easter, a deceased relative came to you in a dream - this foretells that the next 365 days will be very favorable for you. You and your family will experience various happy events during this time, and none of your relatives will die.
- Looking for Easter eggs in a dream means that very soon you will meet your soulmate; the dream promises you a strong mutual feeling.
- Bake paska - the conflict with your loved one will end. You are the culprit in this quarrel, so it is important for you to seek forgiveness.
- From time to time, dreams before Easter can also tell about not very pleasant events - for example, if a girl dreams of kissing a guy in a dream, it means that she will soon find herself in a very unpleasant situation.
- Another pre-Easter dream with a negative meaning is when you attend a church service in a dream. Such a dream foreshadows events that cause great disappointment to a person.
What does it mean to see a snake in a dream?
I dreamed of many snakes. The dream warns of dangers looming over you, of the possible appearance of insidious envious people, traitors and enemies in your life.
I dream about bright snakes before Easter. The dream signals impending danger, a big deception. People you trust may backbite and gossip behind your back.
What does the church think about this?
Contrary to the doubts of many people, church ministers fully admit that in night dreams a person can find out the truth. Often they themselves talk about various cases related to prophetic dreams.
And even in situations where the dreamers are far from Christianity, the night visions dreamed on the eve of church celebrations will still have an impact on their lives.
The most important point in this case is to learn to correctly interpret what you see and recognize the clues sent to us from heaven.
It should also be separately added that the clergy are convinced that the devil is capable of manipulating the human unconscious. Therefore, you still shouldn’t trust 100% everything you see in your dreams at night.
What can you eat on Bright Week after Easter?
At this time, it is better to have time to confess and take communion; breaking the fast is considered an optional attribute of the Easter fast. Lay people observing Lent can eat whatever they want during this period: traditional Easter cakes (butter cakes), Easter cottage cheese, chicken eggs, meat, fish and other products. There are no dietary restrictions during this time.
But parishioners should take into account that the clergy of churches advise observing moderation in everything and not turning this happy time into a continuous celebration. The consumption of alcoholic beverages these days should be, if not excluded, then radically limited. You shouldn’t deny yourself fun and entertainment, but there should be moderation in everything.
Scientists' opinion on this matter
For those who are not believers or who simply always strive to verify the information they receive, the opinion of representatives of science on this matter will be useful.
Thus, scientists are firmly convinced that all night dreams lack any meaning. At the same time, they argue that the time when you saw your dreams also does not matter. In their opinion, in a dream we are just once again confronted with the information that we received during the day.
A particularly striking example, often cited by scientific geniuses, is Mendeleev’s famous dream, in which he saw his famous table. But scientists do not see any divine sign in this, believing that Mendeleev constantly studied information, which was subsequently processed in his subconscious and transformed into a table of chemical elements.
The geniuses of science have an opinion regarding prophetic dreams that no one can say in advance whether a dream will be prophetic or not. But this, of course, does not mean at all that this is the case in reality.
Let's sum it up
If you had some unusual dream on the eve of the great holiday of Easter, you should pay special attention to it and not ignore it. It is likely that it contains some signs or hints from above that will help you make the right decision if you are in a dead end situation, and will direct you to the right path in life.
At the same time, both church ministers and ordinary interpreters of night visions are unanimous that it is necessary to believe in good predictions. After all, if you concentrate on the bad and set yourself up for the negative, the negative will be attracted into your life, and in the same way, and vice versa, by focusing on the positive, you will definitely attract happy events and positive people!
