Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.