Visions & Dreams Differences Between Visions and Dreams The main difference between visions and dreams in the Bible is that dreams are received while the person is sleeping while visions are received while the person is awake and they are often “in the Spirit.” So many people today claim that they have visions and dreams from God but how can they know for sure if they are? Have you noticed a person with eyes open, looking at you but after sometime you realize they were not even seeing you in the picture? Nowadays that spiritual technology is very active. Humans seem to be having an invisible communication between our present (physical kingdom) and an invisible (yet very present) spiritual kingdom. If the dream or vision comes true 100% of the time and if they completely agree with biblical doctrine, the dream indeed may be from God but again, these are not the normative because we already have what God wants to say to us and His will is revealed ...