In antiquity, it was believed that dreams were messages sent by God. There have always been a few extraordinary people who were sought as dream interpreters. Dream stories in the Bible have moral connotations. To speak of dreams as if they were all one class of marvelous phenomena is as foolish as to discount them all as rubbish. Nobel laureate Francis Crick, physicist and discoverer of DNA, wrote that dreams were like waste being processed or like garbage that should be ignored and discarded.
Pure scientists view dreams as manifestations of superstition, magic, and occult phenomena.
Psychoanalysis, despite its efforts, has never made the case for being a science. Contemporary deification of science is a new mythology ruthlessly discounting nonscientific points of view. Yet in this scientific era, supernatural phenomena are increasingly popular in films, theater, song, television, and fiction. The Naskapi Indians of Labrador, Canada, live in small nomadic tribes or communities. Their lives depend on the food they hunt.