NWT is a good translation here. So we have a dream fulfillment (since dream is singular) and two vision fulfillments (since visions is plural). 3 symbolic meanings in total. And the dream fulfillment is written down, so it is the non coded the straight symbolism of the account, the event symbolism. The event symbolism of the dream has the 4 beasts as the Babylonian, Medo Persian, Greek and Roman powers over God's people after God himself ceased being their King. The two vision accounts are two word symbolic threads. 

The two word symbolic meanings (in the first fulfilments) are the story of the 4 successive true religions FDS1,2,3,4 and of the 4 successive administrations of the LON/UN, namely the League of Nations, the UN, the Russian controller UN Beast that emerges after the first birth pang destroys the Manhattan offices of the UN and finally the 4th UNPBC controlled UN beast. (which is finally corrupted by the little horn of the EU). The Image of the Beast has power and headship for 17 'regnal' months. We are not sure when these occur..

The phrase: I kept on beholding/(was looking) occurs 9 times in the account! Of course Daniel kept on beholding, he was a visionary! The first 8 of these occurrences are all to do with time.

We therefore deduce that the phrase I kept on beholding provides a new time frame, it is a time discontinuity. 

The phrase: I kept on beholding in the visions of the night occurs twice. And the whole thing starts with the phrase: I was looking in my vision during the night.

There is a candidate for a triple successive description in verse 7 which is headed by the phrase I was looking in the visions of the night. But it starts with a Chaldee Peal passive participle (BDAHCL) without an 'and' which means it is not being used as an adjective but as a noun. Visions of the night indicates hidden visions. These are the word symbolic threads of the account.

The phrase Kept on beholding, means that the antitypical Daniel (Gordon) kept on decoding. The scripture:

8 I kept on considering the horns

is the main thing Gordon and the LWs were doing for 3 years, since the first of 30 or so adverts attempting to declare in advance when the Image of the UN Beast, with 10 horns, the expanded UNPBC, is born! They got the image of the beast right with the G8 gleneagles summit and the Draft Outcome Document of the 60th world summit in 2005Tishri. But we are still to see its 10 horns.

1 In the first year of Belshazzar, the king of Babylon, Daniel himself beheld a dream and visions of his head upon his bed. At-that-time [Nyd)] he wrote down the dream itself. The complete account of the matters he told.
2 Daniel was speaking up and saying: I happened to be beholding in my visions during the night, and, see there! the 4 winds of the heavens were stirring up the vast sea.
3 And 4 huge beasts were coming up out of the sea, each one being different from the others [Event and Word1 and Word2: These beasts are not created by Satan, they are a reaction from mankind in general to the heavenly activities of Melchizedek, Gabriel, Michael and Satan.]
4 The first one was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I kept on beholding until its wings were plucked out, and it was lifted up from the earth and was made to stand on 2 feet just like a man, and there was given to it the heart of a man.
5 And, see there! another beast, a second [one], [this is evidently a double designation from the sense] it being like a bear. And on one side it was raised up, and there were 3 ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and this is what they [the 4 winds] were saying to it, 'Get up, eat much flesh.'
6 After this I kept on beholding, and, see there! another [beast], one like a leopard, but it had 4 wings of a flying creature on its back. And to-the-beast 4 heads, and rulership was given to her.

9 I kept on beholding until there were thrones placed and the Ancient of Days sat down. His clothing was white just like snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool. His throne was flames of fire; its wheels were a burning fire.
10 There was a stream of fire flowing and going out from before him. There were 1,000 thousands that kept ministering to him, and 10,000 10,000s that kept standing right before him. The Court took its seat, and there were books that were opened.

13 I kept on beholding in the visions of the night [new subaccount], and, see there! with the clouds of the heavens someone like a son of man happened to be coming; and to the Ancient of Days he gained access, and they brought him up close even before that One.
14 And to him there were given rulership and dignity and kingdom, that the peoples, national groups and languages should all serve even him. His rulership is an indefinitely lasting rulership that will not pass away, and his kingdom one that will not be brought to ruin.
15 As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed within on account of it, and the very visions of my head began to frighten me.
16 I went up close to one of those who were standing, that I might request from him reliable information on all this. And he said to me, as he went on to make known to me the very interpretation of the matters,
17 These the beasts, the great [ones] because they are 4, there are 4 kings that will stand up from the earth.
18 But the holy ones of the Supreme One will receive the kingdom, and they will possess the kingdom to time-indefinite, even to time-indefinite upon times-indefinite.'
19 Then it was that I desired to make certain concerning the beast, the 4th which proved to be different from all the others, extraordinarily fearsome, the teeth of which were of iron and the claws of which were of copper, which was devouring [and] crushing, and which was treading down even what was left with its feet;
20 and concerning the 10 horns that were on its head, and the other [horn] that came up and before which 3 fell, even that horn that had eyes and a mouth speaking grandiose things and the appearance of which was bigger than that of its fellows.

Look! Hosea is crying out and saying with the leopard and the bear swapped around...

Now God took his Kingship away from the Samaritans in 723, when the Assyrians took Samaria under Shalmanezer. The Assyrians depicted themselves as a Lion with the two wings of an eagle. You can see statues of such beasts in the British Museum in London. These statues have been recovered from Assyrian Palaces. God took his Kingship away finally from Judah at the appointment of Jehoiakim, which was on 608Chislev10 - see [97]. The first agricultural year without God as King therefore started in 607Tishri. At this time we know from the coded symbolism of Daniel 4 that the heart of the tree representing God's rulership was changed from the heart of a man to the heart of a beast. Whereas we read of the Lion/Eagle of Daniel 7, that its wings were plucked out and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand upon 2 feet like a man and it was given the heart of a man. 

The Babylonians were, like the Egyptians, God's prison warden for his people. This is an elevation in spiritual position from a mere animalistic Beast of the earth. And Nebuchadnezzar was humbled by God so that he developed a spiritual heart, a man's heart, rather than having the heart of an animal, which knows nothing spiritual. 

27 And it came about in the 37th year of the exile of Jehoiachin the king of Judah, in the 12th month, on the 27th day of the month, that Evil-merodach the king of Babylon, in the year of his becoming king, raised up the head of Jehoiachin the king of Judah out of the house of detention;
28 and he began to speak good things with him, and then put his throne higher than the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
29 And he took off his prison garments; and he ate bread constantly before him all the days of his life.
30 As for his allowance, an allowance was constantly given him from the king, daily as due, all the days of his life (Jeremiah 52).

19 And I shall have to break the pride of your strength and make your heavens like iron and your earth like copper (Leviticus 26).

Roman History

313 Constantine recognises the Christian church and ends the persecution of Christians.
380 Theodosius makes Nicene Christianity the state religion.
395 Theodosius divides the Roman empire in two, creating the Western and Eastern Empires.
455 The Vandals sack Rome
476 Odoacer, a mercenary in the service of Roma, leader of the Germanic soldiers in the Roman army, deposes the western Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus, who abdicates, and thereby terminates the western Roman empire.
800  Charlemagne, king of the Franks, is crowned emperor by Pope Leo III and founds the Holy Roman Empire
811  The eastern Roman emperor recognized Charlemagne as emperor of Rome
1453 The Ottoman Turks under Mehmet II capture Constantinople (end of the Eastern Roman Empire)

The 10 Christian Roman Emperors during the political rise of Catholicism were:

http://www.roman-emperors.org/impindex.htm 

Word Symbolisms

The Event symbolism is about Kings over the Jews, God's first people from Abraham's sons. The Account symbolisms are about Kings over the Christians, God's second people from Abraham's sons by covenant. There are two word threads, one thread is sacred, the other is secular.

Word1 secular and Word2 is spiritual because FDS4 can have 10 horns but not have 10 kings, we are not a multi-headed democracy. Also Word2 forces the 3rd beast (called another beast) actually to be the 3rd beast, since the 2nd and 4th beasts are called such. But Word1 allows for the 2nd and 3rd beasts to be transposed, so by the ambiguity principle they are transposed.

I kept on beholding means: Gordon kept doing research. 

3 4 huge beasts were coming up out of the sea, each one being different from the others (Daniel 7)

17 As for these huge beasts, because there are 4, there are 4 kings that will stand up from the earth (Daniel 7).

Word1

Here the leopard UN comes second and the bear UN comes third.

1 In the first year of Belshazzar, the king of Babylon, Daniel himself beheld a dream and visions of his head upon his bed. At-that-time [Nyd)] he wrote down the dream itself. The complete account of the matters he told.
2 Daniel was speaking up and saying: I happened to be beholding in my visions during the night, and, see there! the 4 winds of the heavens were stirring up the vast sea.
3 And 4 huge beasts were coming up out of the sea, each one being different from the others [Event and Word1 and Word2: These beasts are not created by Satan, they are a reaction from mankind in general to the heavenly activities of Melchizedek, Gabriel, Michael and Satan.]
4 The first one was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I kept on beholding until its wings were plucked out, and it was lifted up from the earth and was made to stand on 2 feet just like a man, and there was given to it the heart of a man.
5 And, see there! another beast, a second [one], [this is evidently a double designation from the sense] it being like a bear. And on one side it was raised up [Bears on all 4 legs raise up a front arm/leg before they clobber you - this is Russia raised up on the western side to attack and grab its former cubs which it has lost, the eastern block victims], and there were 3 ribs in its mouth between its teeth [the UN beast, whilst dominated by the Russian bear exerts military rule over 1/8th, 3/24ths of mankind i.e. 800 million people]; and this is what they [the 4 winds] were saying to it, 'Get up, eat much flesh.' [It kills a lot of these people. It lasts for 10 months, the last 10 months of the UN, since the feet of the UN beast of Revelation13 are like a bear, from 2008Ab until 2009Iyyar]
6 After this I kept on beholding, and, see there! another [beast], one like a leopard, but it had 4 wings of a flying creature on its back. And to-the-beast 4 heads, and rulership was given to her.

7 After this I kept on beholding in the visions of the night, and, see there! a 4th beast, [one] being terrifying and terrible and unusually strong [might have been a triple description but no 'and' before 'being terrifying' which is a Chaldee peal passive participle BDAHCL] [the UNPBC]. And it had teeth of iron, big ones [large strong military machine]. It was devouring and crushing, and what was left it was treading down with its feet [it destroys opposition and it tramples those in subjection for 10 months, from 2008Ab to 2009Iyyar]. And it was something different from all of the [-lk] beasts that were prior to it, and it had 10 horns.
8 I kept on considering the horns, and, look! another horn, a small [one], came up in among them [the EU], and there were 3 of the first horns that were plucked up from before it [. And, look! there were eyes like the eyes of a man in this horn, and there was a mouth speaking grandiose things.

11 I kept on beholding at-that-time [Nyd)] because of the sound of the grandiose words that the horn was speaking; I kept on beholding until the beast was killed and its body was destroyed and it was given to the burning fire.
12 But as for the remainder of [r)#, construct noun] the beasts, their rulerships were taken away, and there was a lengthening in life given to them for a time [Nd(] and a appointed time [nmz] [].