Fascination and concern about experiences in dreams is one of humanity’s oldest and most universal cultural traits, tracing back unrecorded millennia into deep time. Psychologists Frederick L. Collidge and Thomas Wynn, authors of How to Think Like a Neanderthal, writing in Psychology Today, argued that more meat in the diet of Australopithecines, allowed for larger brain development. This made Australopithecines more perceptive, and that allowed them to better assess risks, and led to them feeling safe enough to sleep on the ground, instead of in trees. This resulted in better more restful sleep and dreaming, which changes in turn led to the emergence of the genus Homo.1

As far back as we have records, one of the most important things culturally about dreams is that they have always been recognized as a distinct state of consciousness, and that some but not all of the information that came from them had a source outside of spacetime. What today we would call the nonlocal domain.

Oneiromancy is the term science uses to include all the various rituals, read protocols because that is what rituals are, that humanity has come up with to seek insight into the future through […]