Have you considered that healing your physical body could improve your spiritual gifts? I share my testimony of how making pottery healed my brain and improved how vivid my dreams were.

The Lord started speaking to me through dreams in the early Spring of 2023. The dreams were typically in two dimensions. The most frequent dream would be a bible verse in grey text on a black background. I would also dream as if I was watching a movie clip, but there wasn’t size, shape or dimension in the dream.

In the fall of 2023 a prophetic friend of mine recommended that I get involved in some type of art. Painting? No. What about sculpting? This idea fascinated me and I landed on pottery. I found a studio across town and signed up for a brief, one time class to try making pottery on the wheel and loved it. I then signed up for a four part class of more in depth teaching.

I attended the first night of the new class. Making pottery on a wheel is challenging because you can’t really take a break. The wheel must stay spinning in order for the clay to be shaped. Water needs to be continually reapplied to the clay in order to keep it malleable to be shaped. Your hand needs to be applied to the clay in a consistent manner in order to produce good shape and texture. As the night went on I could feel a different type of tiredness in my brain as I managed all of the different constraints of making pottery.

Before proceeding, I have to share some context that my job is analytical and theoretical. It involves detailed thinking in abstract ways, typing on a keyboard and looking at a computer screen for hours on end. My brain has been finely tuned for these processes over many years. My brain had not been trained to make art in three dimensional space, and therefore I was using neural pathways I had not touched in a long time.

The class ends and as I get back to my vehicle this massive headache sets in, but only on the right half of my brain. It was as if a line was drawn straight down the middle of my brain. Everything on the left-side (analytical, theoretical) was fine but the entire right-side (creative, emotional) had a huge headache. It was such a strange feeling and I was so unnerved that I considered going to the hospital, but I reasoned that my brain was just tired from making pottery.

I drove home and since it was late at night I laid in bed to go to sleep as the headache continued. As I laid in bed I closed my eyes and I saw abstract shapes rapidly moving all around, mostly black and white with shades of grey. There was no recognizable form or pattern, it all appeared random and uncontrollable.

I then realized, and maybe the Lord spoke to me, that my brain was being healed. The pottery had excited these dusty, unused neural pathways and new connections were being made or healed. Looking back, I believe the random shapes being displayed was a projection of what was occurring in my brain. Somehow information is transmitted from my eyes and then received and processed by my brain. Changes to the interpretive, processing portion of the brain could then impact how visual information is processed and received.

I eventually fell asleep and woke up without any more headache.

And after that is when I started dreaming in three dimensions with vivid dreams. I also speculate that I have received mental images and visions more frequently since then. I would call this experimental evidence that there are physical connections into our spiritual gifts.