Vision Vs Dreams

Vision VS Dream

Vision

  • The act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
  • The act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur.
  • An experience in which a personage, thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present, often under the influence of a divine or other agency: a heavenly messenger appearing in a vision.
  • Something seen or otherwise perceived during such an experience: The vision revealed its message.
  • A vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation: visions of wealth and glory.

Focus/Vivid

Dream

  • A succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
  • The sleeping state in which this occurs.
  • An object seen in a dream
  • An involuntary vision occurring to a person when awake.
  • A vision voluntarily indulged in while awake; daydream; reverie.

Not Focused/Emotional/Not Concrete

Habakkuk 2:2 ESV

And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.

Proverbs 29:18 ESV 

Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.

Habakkuk 2:3 ESV 

For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.

Joel 2:28 ESV 

“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.