ABSTRACT
Dreams have always excited man's curiosity and wonder, and there can be little doubt that they have had a most important place in determining some of the deepest and most widespread of his beliefs. In the childhood of man one of his greatest difficulties must have lain in his acquirement of the power to distinguish the experience of the waking life from that of sleep, and among many peoples, if not even sometimes among ourselves, the distinction is incomplete. Not only have the occurrences of sleep had a large, if not a preponderant, role in determining man's belief in a spiritual world, but they must have taken a large part in producing that mysterious aspect of its experience which gives to religion in general its pecuhax character.
