Voices are partly concealed within the rumblings of thunder. All these things are weighted with expectancy. I do not study man in order to speak of God. On the contrary, I study God in order to speak of man. For much the same reason, I am not at all confident that the study of dreams will tell us much about the divine inspiration that produced Holy Scripture.
Dreams are adventures in hope.
Sometimes, to be sure, they are bad dreams, because the elements of chaos in our experience are simply too massive for adequate integration. In such cases our spirit senses overload. Often enough this frightening sensation wakes us up, because our internal system cannot endure the pressure. In themselves, however, in the structures that are proper to their activity, dreams are essays in hope. They represent the deepest level of our spontaneous impulse toward narrative.