Grump's Grump

Dreaming, is really not a very good word to describe what it is that oral traditions means when they talk about dreaming.  Maybe it's the shift in meaning from when they used the word to how we use it today.  But dreaming  pretty much means that the person is asleep or otherwise not conscious of themselves.  While to someone in an oral society it means a different state of being or awareness.  A lot of people talk about an alternate state of consciousness happening during traumatic events in their lives.  Oral shaman trained to enter that state without the traumatic trigger.  It would make more sense to call this an alternate perspective than a Dream.