Searching in a dream

Biblical meaning from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa

Also: Looking for something, Seeking, Searching for, Hunting for

What it means

Seeking; looking for an answer; being inquisitive, diligent, prayerful, and studying the Word.

Desperation, and being in need of something.

I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven. Searching is the posture of one who has not yet settled for an easy answer.

✦ When it is positive

Being prayerful
Seeking the Word
Looking for answers with diligence

⚠ When it is a warning

Having lost something
Being lost
Being without identity

How to tell the difference

Establish WHAT is being searched for and whether it is found. A search that ends in finding is a dream about answered enquiry; a search that never resolves points to something still unsettled. Distinguish searching (active seeking) from Losing Something (dispossession).

Scripture

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Ecclesiastes 1:13 (WEB)

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
Ecclesiastes 7:25 (WEB)

You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:13 (WEB)

“Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
Luke 15:8 (WEB)