THE SENSES WHILE DREAMING
While dreaming, our outer senses are generally non- functional. It's been said by medical professionals that in the case of a dying person, or someone in a coma, the last sense to go is the ability to hear. So be careful what you say in the presence of an unconscious or dying person!
In a dream-state any sudden noise can instantly bring our senses to a condition of alertness. But as we fall into the pattern of sleep the senses are repressed more and more. Nevertheless as we dream they seem to be re-activated in that dream-realm. It's not that the natural senses are animated again but that we are able to recall what the senses are capable of and “feel” these happening within the confines of our dream.
The ability to “feel” and have “sense feeling” in our dreams is part and parcel of everyone's dream life, and we take of the granted upon awakening. But I believe that spiritually there are times when our spiritual senses take over - they being a mirror of our natural ones.
For example, we are a tripartite being of spirit, soul, and body with our spiritual body having a form similar to our natural frame. One is always visible and the other always invisible. Despite the latter's limitations there are times when we function quite well in using our spiritual senses. The use of spiritual discernment is one of those.
There are occasions in dreaming when the “inner senses” are active. We might use the ears of our spirit man to hear a word from Lord, or see with spiritual insight what is actually happening in a dream.
This operates a little like having the ability to see in a vision when the natural eyes are dulled to the spiritual reality. One of the best Biblical examples of this is found in 2 Kings 6:15-17.
And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an ar my surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, "Alas, my master, what shall we do?" So he answered, "Do not fear, for those w