Decoding the deeper meaning behind symbols that appear in dreams has long fascinated humankind. Especially when it comes to interpreting biblical dream symbolism, eyes can have profound spiritual significance that offers insight into one’s destiny, relationships, inner truth, and life path.
By examining what various colors and numbers of eyes represent in biblical accounts, we can begin to uncover the revelatory messages eyes in dreams might hold.
Biblical Meaning of Eyes in Dreams
In the Bible, eyes symbolize spiritual vision, wisdom, perception, and knowledge. Dreams featuring eyes often indicate that the dreamer needs to reevaluate something or gain new understanding and awareness.
Seeing a third eye in a dream, for instance, can signify obtaining higher consciousness or seeing something that has been previously hidden. Closed eyes represent refusal to truly “see” a situation or recognize certain truths.
Single Eye
A single eye in a dream indicates that you need focus, clarity, and spiritual vision to perceive something accurately. It’s a prompt to open your eyes wider – to seek truth.
Matthew 6:22 states, “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” This biblical passage emphasizes the importance of having focused sight leading to revelations. A single eye sheds light on one’s whole perspective.
Two Eyes
Two eyes in a biblical dream often signify gaining deeper understanding or “seeing both sides” of a situation. Having a “double vision” encourages more stereoscopic comprehension – you perceive added layers or dimensions to circumstances.
Proverbs 20:12 for example notes, “The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The Lord has made both of them.” God designed humans to have binocular vision to promote increased discernment, insight and awareness.
Many Eyes
Many eyes in dreams denote manifold or comprehensive sight. You have “eyes in the back of your head” – expanded perceptual range. This symbolizes a larger worldview with greater consciousness or vision that sees many interconnected facets of a scenario.
As Ezekiel 1:18 states when describing the glory of God, “Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.” This passage illustrates how multiplied eyes reflect boundless heavenly sight and omniscience.
Common Eye Dream Symbols and Their Interpretation
Beyond the number of eyes present in a dream, there are many descriptive characteristics that contain symbolic significance. Here are some prevalent eye symbols found in dreams and possible meanings.
Blind Eyes
Blind eyes or damaged sight in dreams imply you’ve been blinded to certain truths and lack insight or awareness about a situation. There’s an unwillingness to fully see or ignorance clouding perception.
Healing of blind eyes represents a restoration of vision and understanding. John 9 documents Jesus healing a man blind from birth, signifying spiritual illumination and awakening to greater realities.
Crying Eyes
Tearful or crying eyes in dreams often indicate deep emotions coming to the surface seeking expression, healing, and acknowledgment. Tears reflect cleansing and need for release.
Psalm 56:8 states, “You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.” God captures every tear since emotional pain matters.
Evil Eyes
In dreams, evil or sinister eyes can symbolize people or spirits trying to negatively influence your life through jealousy, hatred, greed selfishness or deception. They reflect inner or outer attacks against your moral vision and discernment.
1 Peter 3:12 notes: “For the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, And His ears attend to their prayer.” Evil eyes contradict God’s loving eyes watching over those devoted to truth.
Flaming Eyes
Flaming or fiery eyes signify passionate, zealous sight having illuminating characteristics. This imagary often represents the protective, purifying, inspiration presence of God or Holy Spirit.
Daniel 10 describes an angelic being with blazing eyes like flaming torches emphasizing the piercing, brilliant, radiating gaze of heavenly messengers who see through surface illusions.
Decoding Eyes in Dreams Using Color Symbolism
The color of eyes perceived in dreams also holds important symbolic implications. Here are some common eye colors that show up in dreams with spiritual meanings.
Blue Eyes
Blue is associated with heavenly realities, divine sight, and timelessness. Sapphire blue eyes denote spiritual vision, eternity, devotion, innocence, hope, and purpose.
The Hebrew high priest wore a breastplate adorned with sapphires representing the jewel eyes of God always watching over, guiding and communing with His creation (Exodus 24:10).
Brown Eyes
Brown eyes represent earthiness, reliability, human warmth, and trustworthiness. They suggest physically grounded sight and wisdom – without over inflated ego or pride.
In a dream, brown eyes symbolize seeing through humble human eyes – without pretention yet still sensing eternal vibrations. You have “mud in your eyes” but behold life’s deeper meaning.
Green Eyes
Green is linked with nature’s refreshing growth, renewal, and spring energies. Emerald green eyes signify youthfulness, invigoration, healing, and life-giving properties.
Revelation 4:3 portrays a heavenly messenger surrounded by emerald radiance. This reflects how green eyes emanate restorative vision furthering spiritual maturation and fruition by God’s light.
Red Eyes
Red eyes represent emotional hurt, fatigue, strain, wounds, or negativity affecting sight making it difficult to properly see. Bloodshot eyes indicate current battles and wounds inhibiting perception.
Jotham growing mighty is described as having “bloodshot eyes from drinking wine.” (Genesis 49:12) Here, red eyes show humanity’s propensity towards suffering and violence tainting even a mighty leader’s vision.
Unpacking Symbolic Meanings of Right and Left Eyes
Dreams discriminating between right and left eyes imply imbalances or conflicting motivations pulling you in separate directions. Eye laterality holds symbolic import.
Right Eye Meaning
The right eye represents positivity, dominance, strength, action, and logic. It’s driven by willpower and ego. Losing your right eyesymbolizes sabotaging confidence vision or power.
Zechariah 11:17 warns, “Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock!…His right eye will be totally blind.” Here, blinded right sight reflects compromised leadership abilities and destructiveness.
Your left eye indicates intuition, inner vision, creative imagination, and receptivity. It grasps the big picture through emotional, spleen, and innovative sight. Losing left eye acumen sabotages mystical visions and instincts.
Numbers 24:3 describes Balaam opening left eye sight to imagine hearing God’s words. Open left eyes unveil prophetic mystical sight and access higher guidance through visual revelation.
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