Japanese Dreams Culture and Cosmology

The way dreams are perceived in Japan across time seems to mirror patterns we've seen in other cultures. Some people regard them as private internal phenomena with no informational relevance to the external world or no special power. Others see them as having a kind of magic or predictive power and involving genuine interactions with spiritual beings, both good and bad. The author begins by looking at the German period, which is about 10,000 BCE until about 500 BCE.