IMO: Dreams are the root of belief in soul, spirituality and religion.

[heidler1]

The real root of dreams is desire, fear, hormones, envy, genetics and other things. If you live so as to satisfy or control the forgoing; your dreams will be more pleasant. If you buy into dogmas that prevent you from satisfying or dealing with these animal desires I believe your dreams will get weirder and weirder. So then you might seek dream protection, very likely in church. I doubt if it will help much.

Asking someone who doesn't have a problem with dreams to be religious or spiritual is like telling someone who does not have a hearing problem to wear a hearing aid.

[Book Lover]

1. Are you talking about

literal or figurative dreams? Thanks :-)

[heidler1]

6. I had in mind night time, while sleeping, type dreams, but day dreams are similar.

[ladjf]

2. Yes. In short, they are fabricating their "truths" , a very dangerous

practice.

For example: the zoo management in San Diego fabricated the truth about how high a young tiger could jump. "Let see, about 12.5 feet ought to do it". Now, a person is dead because of their failure to study the tiger's capabilities more closely.

[stillcool]

3. My dreams will be more pleasant...

if I control emotional responses? I don't think so. That repression stuff is deadly.

[heidler1]

5. You used the word control different than I had in mind. Although

some control over emotional outbursts is advisable for getting along in the world and peace.

[stillcool]

8. I believe that is something...

one learns from their environment..how to deal with emotions. Drinking and drugging was the fave in my surroundings. Worked well for me for a long time. The structure of the society I was born into did not 'do' emotions.

[heidler1]

9. I'm 82 and never had a drug problem, but alcohol, another drug, caused me a lot of problems.

In the last couple of years it triggered atrial fibrillation to the point I've about given it up. I liked to drink socially and tended to have friends who drank too much. I'm lucky in that I don't crave it, but I miss the bull shit we laughed about.

[The Traveler]

4. Trifecta

"Asking someone who doesn't have a problem with dreams to be religious or spiritual is like telling someone who does not have a hearing problem to wear a hearing aid."

That comes across as arrogant, idiotic, and ignorant all at once.

[heidler1]

7. DITTO

[The Traveler]

10. And yer momma wears combat boots!

:rofl: