This paper is a cross cultural research paper I wrote at CIIS. I’m always a little cautious or skeptical about cross cultural comparison because interpretation of communication is often cultural. In this paper, I used academic or literary sources to explore Native American views on dreaming and compare them with Western approaches to dreaming. My primary learning is a respect for dreams in their capacity to communicate and mediate good or bad fortune.
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