Same btw like you don't know if it's a message from God or just you going nuts XD
As far as I know, if we have a nightmare, it is definitely from satan. Let me elaborate my previous answer. Those 4 previous sign can be classified into 2 points.
The dreams are from satan if:
- We have a nightmare by seeing snake, drowning, and falling from a high place. The snake will scare or attack us in our dream to make the dreamer very frightened in his own dream.
- Dream followed with lust (lust dream) such as visited by people we've ever liked or people who interested in us. The key point is "lust".
If these nightmare happened, I have been taught to do this and it works for me:
- pray to God and ask his protection from satan and from the evil dreams itself.
- change the sleep position. If before nightmare our head was on north position, change it to south. If our previous side was toward east, change it to west.
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This is my original answer:
I have been told that if one of these event occur in your dream, it is definitely from satan.
- you are seeing snake
- you jumping from a high building/places
- you are seeing people that you like/you have an interest in them
- you are seeing people whom like you
I usually change my sleep position if those dreams happened to me
[edit]. Let me rethink again for point no.3 and no.4. I believe it is more than just "seeing"