Our Little Granddaughter had spent Saturday night with us. When I woke her to get ready to go to Sunday School, she exclaimed, "Oh, Grandmother, I was having an amazing dream." She proceeded to tell me her dream in great detail. It seemed she was at an amusement park in a distant state, and a wicked witch, whose red socks gave her great power, was preventing her from getting home. She thought the red socks got into the dream because she had been reprimanded for wearing her mother's socks.
I found myself continuing to think about my granddaughter's dream. While a dream is happening, there is no doubt of its reality to the dreamer. But when one is awake, the dream can be separated from reality.
Early in the Bible there is an account of a dreamer named Adam. It's found in the Genesis allegory about a creator called "Lord God," whose medium for creating is dust. We are told that Adam, the man of dust, is put into a deep sleep. During his sleep, a rib is taken from him and formed into woman. We're never told that Adam ever wakes up. We might infer that all that follows is a dream, the effect of the deep sleep.
