Yeshivishsocrates: That’s not what that Gemara means. Dreams have actual meaning, it’s not that you say anything random but good about any random dream and that’s what the dream means. The point is that most dreams have several possible interpretations and in such a case there is more of a chance that the interpretation that you say it means will come about. Otherwise, what is the point of the large amount of Gemara in that Perek telling us what certain things mean. Wouldn’t Yosef Hatzadik be a Shofech Damim for subjecting Egypt to famine? Why does the Gemara say that there were people who were experts at interpreting dreams? The point is that the dream has a limited number of meanings. In Paroh’s case it was just one. And the interpretation that you give, so long as it’s one of those meanings, is the one that will come about.
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