We are dreamers (Psalm 126)

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Dreams are powerful and mysterious. Carl Jung called them the “impartial products of the unconscious psyche … they show us the unvarnished, natural truth.” Other researchers claim that dreams have no meaning, that they are simply a neurobiological function that sorts and pulls together random thoughts and images from our memories. Shakespeare’s Tempest says we are made from the stuff of dreams, fleeting and ephemeral. And numerous biblical narratives depict God communicating with people through dreams—issuing warnings, foretelling future events, or sharing wisdom. Not easily defined, dreams inhabit untamed psychological, emotional, and spiritual terrain.