Parallels in the Song of the Bride and the Dove

Many commentators read both of the two episodes as descriptions of dreams, or at least this one, the bride is sleeping, but her heart is awake. At several points in the song, we are in the night time and in bedchambers, the time and place of dreams. The suppressed desires, longings, sorrows and deeper passions of our flesh often reveal themselves most fully in the nocturnal guise of dreams. In the time of dreaming, our consciousness is transformed from that of our waking states. Our mind's grasp upon reality slips, and our internal world assumes foreign and strange aspects as we lose the ability to impose order upon it.