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This is perhaps my favorite dream from the bible (perhaps because there are so many good ones). Can be found in the seventh chapter of Judges. Gideon is the main character here. Gideon while obviously a man of God and referred to by God as a “mighty man of valour” and was working hand in hand with God in several tasks and engaged in some lengthy dialogue in Judges chapter six and seven but needed reassurance by God (The Angel of The Lord) and had the Spirit of God upon him was given the following instructions/encouragement by God regarding the task of defeating the Midianites:
9 That same night the Lord said to Gideon, Arise, go down against their camp, for I have given it into your hand.
10 But if you fear to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp
11 And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp. Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the camp of the armed men.
12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east lay along the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand on the seashore for multitude.
13 When Gideon arrived, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of [a]barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down so that the tent lay flat.
14 And his comrade replied, This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel. Into his hand God has given Midian and all the host.
15 When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped and returned to the camp of Israel and said, Arise, for the Lord has given into your hand the host of Midian.
Note how it appears that dreams and interpretation seemed relatively common place in those days. Read this most interesting and encouraging story in Judges 6 & 7. Jdg 7:1