Who Needs Sleep?
What is the Importance of Dreaming?What is the importance of dreams? Even in the past they've had an effect on people. "For thousands of years, people believed that dreams originated from somewhere outside of us. They believed that the strange images encountered in dreams were either the result of our souls leaving our bodies during sleep or of visitations from gods delivering messages and prophecies" (Recio & London 6). This is even used in the Bible, some examples being in the Book of Judges, Gideon had a prophetic dream about defeating the Midianites, and in the Book of Matthew, the Archangel Gabriel visited both Mary and Joseph in a dream about Mary's pregnancy. It doesn't seem to relate that God sent messages through dreams in the Bible and that during the Middle Ages "in the West, the Roman Catholic Church relegated dreams to the realm of devils and demons" (Recio & London 8), but dreams have always been an enigma, and people tend to be scared of what they don't know, so they would claim that dreams were evil.