It is obvious that sinful dreams, of sexual or violent acts, indicate a sinful attitude in the deeper self.
Sinful dreams are not consciously generated, but they are produced by the sleeping personality, so they are not totally innocent.
The dream itself would be sinful when the waking self enjoys the dream or even wishes the dream scene was real. Apologizing to God for having the sinful dream would be good.
Yes, it is representative of what is in the heart of a man. I also beleive it could be a demonic attack.
I recall shortly after being saved, I was 18 at the time and had a dream that I was in a heavy metal rock band ripping it up on a stage and the lyrics was basically shouting out "Hail Satan!" over and over again. I woke up quite shocked that I would have such a dream and immediately cried out to God begging his forgiveness for having such a dream! It was probably in response to some preacher preaching against the Satanic influences of rock music or whatever. It was back in the early 80s when it was fashionable to expose all of the subliminal backward masking in rock music!
On another note, I once recorded
"I sing because I live with Satan..." (the supposed backward message in Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven") and reversed it (easy to do with Pro Tools) and it didn't sound at all like
"If there's a bustle in the hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, it's just a spring clean for the may queen..." For me, this pretty much debunked all of the backward masking nonsense but I still won't pick up a guitar at our local Guitar Center and start playing "Stairway to Heaven!"
