Dreams! Daydreams! Night dreams! Are they real? Should we believe them? Should we let our lives, our health, our happiness, be governed by the deep darkness of dreams? Few people think of what goes on in a night dream as actually happening. And flimsy daydreams are seen as mainly flights of fancy.
But there is a dream with which we live consciously or unconsciously each waking and sleeping hour, and from which we all need to wake up: the dream of material existence. From this dream of belief come all the discords of our lives, including fear, lack, sickness, sin, disease, death.
The Apostle Paul says in his Epistle to the Romans, "Now it is high time to awake out of sleep." Rom. 13:11; And so it is if we are to enjoy happy, harmonious, healthful lives. It is time to acquaint ourselves more fully with God's creation of man in His perfect image and likeness—man who neither sleeps nor dreams, because God neither sleeps nor dreams. Mrs. Eddy writes in the textbook: "The history of error is a dream-narrative. The dream has no reality, no intelligence, no mind; therefore the dreamer and dream are one, for neither is true nor real." Science and Health, p. 530;
