After heading down to the library I chose to start my research with the most basic answers I could think of from a dictionary. I thought if anything would give me a straight …show more content…
In this book Australian “dream teacher”, Robert Moss, described what the difference is on how people see dreams, that “in modern Western societies, we think of dreams as sleep experiences. But for many other cultures, dreaming is fundamentally about waking up” (xii). Waking up. That certainly wasn’t the outlook on dreams that I was taught as a child, I mused. So I decided to Dig a little deeper I learned that dreams have been seen for many thousands of years as they way that the gods or divines have spoken to humanity (11). The thought that dreams serve(d) as a connection to omnipotent beings certainly isn’t a new one and would explain why people have always had a fascination with dreams. It would have been reassuring thinking that some higher power was in control of your thoughts at night, which made me wonder. What about dreams that we can