For philosophers in many traditions, dreams and meanings– or definitions– of reality have been inextricably linked. Dreams have provided human beings with worlds and experiences that can be just as vivid as real life and yet involve places, objects and...

People who have survived an accident, illness or other physical trauma sometimes report stories of near-death experiences (NDEs) in which their consciousness seemed to separate from their bodies. Many NDE survivors describe seeming to float above their bodies, or...

Our dreams can present us with a virtually endless array of images, actions and scenarios which encode meaning in symbols and metaphors created by our subconscious minds. I’ve written about common dream symbols and their interpretations already, but the meaning of...

In Islam, dreams can form an important channel of communication between human beings and the supernatural world, and Islamic dreams interpretation has a long history in the Middle East. During medieval times, when Christian Europe was struggling to maintain order...

As a visitor to our site, you probably already believe that dreams are interesting and relevant to our waking lives. Humans have also endeavored to understand the larger significance of dreams through the lens of indigenous and religious traditions, social sciences...