... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the hearts desire so to speak. Not all dreams maybe but the important ones. p.254

Some dreams matter illuminate a crucial choice or reveal some intuition thats trying to push its way to the surface. Other though are detritus the residue of the day reassembling itself in some disjointed and chaotic way ... Frantic dreams they left me tired and I woke grouchy to another rainy day the sky so densely gray and the rain so thick that I couldnt that I couldnt see the opposite shore p 166