I was looking through some random sites and stumbled across a really good one on this topic.
It reads as follows;
In the daylight world, we go to work or school, we eat, do the shopping, pay the bills … we build relationships with other people. Essentially, we do the work of creating and maintaining our lives. But at night, in sleep, we enter a world that may resemble the waking world of mundane reality, or it may be a world that is medieval or futuristic or something else entirely; time becomes completely distorted; and we meet a host of characters including faces that are familiar, faces that are not, and faces that look like they have risen from the pages of books on mythological creatures.
We may wake from a dream joyous or sad or absolutely terrified. And at some point, most of us will ask, “What was that all about?” Are dreams significant or is a nightmare merely a bit of dinner gone wrong? Many ancient, primal cultures believed that the dream world was at least as significant as the waking world. People used their dreams for personal guidance and some people in the tribe, like Black Elk, the holy man of the Oglala Sioux tribe, dreamed dreams that carried significance for the entire culture. As some cultures evolved in a more scientifically rational direction, the belief that dreams were of importance to human beings was cast away. Then a man came along, Carl Gustav Carus (1779-1868), who postulated that in addition to human beings having a conscious existence, they also had an unconscious mind that was simultaneously biological, material, and psychological in nature.
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