Each month, we will bring you a brief article that looks at some of those beliefs and practices. There is that dream - the one where you are falling and falling but always manage to wake up from just before you reach the bottom. Many people believe that if you actually hit the ground in your dream, you die - for real. Everyone knows that dreams are generated by the dreamer's subconscious. They reflect the dreamer's waking state of mind or some deep-seated fear or desire.
Dreams are nothing else.
It's all in the imagination. We are so smug in our scientific cocoon. Really, it was not so long ago that we believed just that. Many of the beliefs still exist but in meaningless phrases and gestures rather than as part of everyday knowledge. Dreams occurred when the vessel, the body, went to sleep and the soul left for a while.