Daniel 4:5 (BSB)

I had a dream, and it frightened me; while I was in my bed, the images and visions in my mind alarmed me.

From Daniel 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Daniel 4:5

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 4:4-18: Nebuchadnezzar, before he relates the judgments of God that had been wrought upon him for his pride, gives an account of the fair warning he had of them before they came, a due regard to which might have prevented them.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 4:5: I saw a dream which made me afraid,.... Things were represented to his fancy in a dream, as if he saw them with his eyes, as the tree, its leaves and fruit; the shaking and cutting it down to the stump, &c.; and though he did not understand the meaning of it, yet he thought it portended some evil, which threw him into a panic...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Daniel 4:5: I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. (b) This was another dream besides that which he saw of the four empires, for Daniel both declared what that dream was, and what it meant, and here he expounds this dream.
• Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Daniel 4:5: I saw a dream - See this dream circumstantially explained in the following verses.