Spirits of sleep and darkness,
thank you for these dark silences.
For you, the Great Darkness,
we wait here in the silence.
Watchers, look: see how empty
the sky is of all shining.
The night has shut her eyes, and
the moon has turned away from us.
Let us wait in the darkness
and make offerings to the night.
~Song from Iroquois fire ritual
The activity of the mind at rest is awesome. Each night we move into an altered state so commonplace that we often fail
to recognize its power and astonishing creative force. As we lie in suspended animation, our minds show us visions, create characters and stories, and reveal perceptions that had eluded our waking mind.
This endlessly fertile dream mind is common to all human beings. With no effort whatsoever, we are able to write scripts
of complex dramas, paint magnificent pictures, map strange lands, write compelling dialogue. We can fly, we can swim,
we can wear the bodies of animals. We can even make scientific breakthroughs, as has often been documented. Whenever
we imagine that the day is more important than the night, we only have to imagine living without dreams to see how truly
important the night is.
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