What is a dream?
A succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through
the
mind during the sleep. Webster
Dreams are like a chiropractic adjustment. They grab us, they affect us, they involve us, and they change us.
They shape us, and we have been changed by them. And for that purpose, interpretation is not necessary. The immediate
reality of the dream is the story that is experienced.
Henry Reed
Dreams play a central role in revealing
to a person the potential for his or her own individuation or journey toward wholeness.
Dreams are mirrors reflecting some aspect of life or the unconscious.
Strephon Kaplan Williams Dreams are gifts, waiting to be opened.
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during
his waking state he may know nothing about it...We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing
things and are asleep in regard to that which is real within our self.
Paracelsus Sleep is a preoccupation of the soul. Mas'adi
Dream incubation
is the ritual of going to sleep in a sacred place in anticipation of receiving a divinely inspired dream.
Henry Reed
The general function of dreams is to try
to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes in a subtle way,
to total psychic equilibrium. Carl Jung
If there
is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision,
I speak with
him in a dream. Book of Numbers, the Bible
Dreams are
a conversation between man and his God. Mohammed
Dreams may be gifts from God to the community,
