Joseph was in the king's jail falsely accused of attacking the wife of Potiphar. While in jail he was put in charge of the entire place because he was a good steward. Of all the people in the jail there were 2 who had dreams.
The morning after the two had dreams, Joseph noticed that these prisoners were sad. This is unusual, because one would expect prisoners to be sad - they were in prison. Nevertheless, Joseph noticed a big enough difference with these two that he asked them about what was wrong. They informed him that they had no one to interpret their dreams. Joseph replied that interpretations belonged to God, then listened to the recouting of the dreams, and then he interpreted them.
Like Joseph's dreams these dreams were filled with metaphore. And like Joseph's dreams they predicted as well as reflected feelings those two men had hidden deep within their thoughts.
The Cup Bearer of the king had possitive thoughts about his relationshiip with the king. His dream was filled with prosperity of grapes and wine - he saw himself serving the king with his wine. This dream says something about the Cup Bearer's inner feelings at the time - he felt good about his work and about the king. Joseph told him that he would be restored to his job within 3 days.
When the Baker told Joseph about his dream, we discover a man who felt deep inside that his work for Pharoah was being taken away from him by birds. Joseph predicted that he woould lose his life within 3 days.
Joseph was right about both dreams.
As in Joseph's dreams, although these dreams were prophetic, the sources of the dreams were the inner thoughts and feelings that these two men had the night they dreamed the dreams.
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