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Rustlings of a dream theology?... Where do dreams come from,  where do we go when we dream,  what are the limits of our dreams? This is a question that has mystified the greatest minds and mystics since humans have existed.    Shakespeare said: “ I could be bounded in a nutshell and still be king of infinite space, if were not for these dreams at night” Yes, clearly, most seem to have a direct or indirect continuity with waking life. Much is obviously the working through issues from waking life: insecurities, shames, worries, guilts, desires, plans, and neuroses.    But what of those creative, wild, visual ones that are so full of unknown people, places, situations and even dimensions that seem to come out of nowhere and relate to nothing experiential??   What about that mystical feeling that they indeed must come from somewhere else?…. This is a theme that I have informally catalogued most of my life.   Many people have kept dream journals. That is usef