Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.
Rodger KamenetzYour dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.
Rodger KamenetzI'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.
Rodger KamenetzMainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled.
Rodger Kamenetz