Yet for most people, there is an acute disjuncture between dream life and waking life. The reality of our waking life is considered real while our dream life is not. Those realities that are explored in dream are so devalued that most of us don't even remember our dreams, and when we do, we are ill-equipped to assimilate or celebrate their gifts or challenges. When the worlds of our experience are severed from one another, both worlds suffer from sterility and inertia. When bridges between these realities are built, and the connections are valued, each world is enriched.
Dreams can inform our waking life with their poetry, humor, expanded horizon and story.
They can spark our creativity, inspiration and yearning. In turn, the waking consciousness can provide dreams with questions, focus, direction and a treasure of images . In connecting the night with the day, we become whole. Artziut, the Israel of our collective dream, is the dream that we have dreamt in Galut. It is necessary to our health, vitality, beauty and growth as a people.