I've been having a great many strange dreams about the end of the world and religion in general. I'd like to put them all here, in the hopes that I can get inputs from other people about what I've experienced. The first dream that I can remember having in regards to religion and such, I had when I was eight years old. I don't know many children that know of or even understand the concept of demon possession, but it was something I thought about every once in a while, even at that age. In this dream, I was at the local Wal-Mart with my mother. We were in the pet section, where she was getting some dog food, when she ran into a friend of hers. They started talking while I simply stood by the cart, waiting patiently. I had noticed that there was a man following us through the store. I recognized him as a rabbi, and while my mother was distracted, he walked up to me, knelt down to be on my level and looked at me very seriously. He said, "I have something that I must tell you, child, and I want you to remember it because it is going to be very important to you very soon. Remember this phrase." And then he walked away. In my dream, it was suddenly the next day, and I woke up feeling as though something was wrong. When I walked into the living room, I realized what was wrong: there was a demon possessing things in my house. I tried to tell my family, but they didn't believe me and wrote it off as an overactive imagination. I was desperate to chase the evil away, and the rabbi's words came to mind, so I shouted the phrase at the object the demon was in. It was chased out, but it continuously possessed things in my home, including people. So I kept chasing it, shouting the phrase until it eventually just completely disappeared. I woke up from that dream terrified, sweating and shaking. I still remember the phrase, even though I had this dream sixteen years ago. The phrase was, "The rock is no place to bear children!" It made absolutely no sense to me, but it worked to exorcise the demon. Any ideas?
I would guess that at about that age you would have started to really think about religion and aspects of it like the existence of demons and the concepts of good and evil, and your thoughts passed over into your dreams. "The rock is no place to bear children" - could you have mixed up words you overhead other people saying?
It's quite possible that I could have just been throwing random words together to create that phrase. I always thought it was strange, though, since I am not Jewish, yet I was dealing with a rabbi in my dreams. But thank you for your insight. It was helpful.