In the frame of the Unseen World, "dreaming" is understood as time out of time. Every person essentially exists eternally in it. This eternal part existed before the life of the individual begins, and continues to exist when the life of the individual ends.
There are a number of verses in the Scripture referring to this stage of deep sleep, as follows :
ISAIAH 29 : THE FATE OF JERUSALEM.-
"GOD's Altar, JERUSALEM itself is doomed! The city where David camped is doomed! Add another year, and another year; let the Feasts and Festivals run their round (time out of time), and then GOD will bring disaster on the city called "GOD's Altar, and JERUSALEM will be to Me like an Altar. There will be weeping and wailing, and the whole city will be like an Altar covered with blood. GOD will attack the city, surround it, and besiege it. JERUSALEM will be like A GHOST struggling to speak from UNDER the GROUND, a MUFFLED VOICE coming FROM the DUST. But the multitude of your foreigners (false souls) will be blown away like dust, and the multitude of their terrifying armies (ruthless spirits) will fly away like straw. And in an instant, suddenly, YOU, JERUSALEM, will BE VISITED by the LORD OF HOST, and unexpectedly HE will RESCUE you with violent thunder storms and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the FLAME OF A DEVOURING FIRE. And the multitude of all THE NATIONS (false souls and ruthless spirits) THAT FIGHT AGAINST GOD'S ALTAR, all that fight against her, and their weapons and equipment -EVERYTHING WILL VANISH LIKE A DREAM, LIKE SOMETHING IMAGINED IN THE NIGHT." (1-7)
GENESIS 2 : THE GARDEN OF EDEN.-
"When GOD made the Universe, there were no plants on the earth and no seeds had sprouted, because HE HAD NO SENT ANY RAIN, and THERE WAS NO ONE TO CULTIVATE THE LAND, but WATER WOULD COME UP FROM BENEATH the SURFACE and WATER THE GROUND.
Then GOD TOOK some SOIL FROM THE GROUND and FORMED A MAN OUT of IT, HE BREATHED LIFE giving breath INTO HIS NOSTRILS and MAN BEGAN TO LIVE. Then the GOD PLANTED a GARDEN in Eden, in the East, and there HE PUT the MAN He had formed. HE MADE all kinds of beautiful TREES grow there and produce GOOD FRUIT. In the MIDDLE of the garden STOOD the TREE that gives LIFE and the TREE that gives KNOWLEDGE of what is good and what is bad."(4-9) ... "GOD placed the MAN in the Garden of Eden to CULTIVATE it and to GUARD it. GOD told him, 'You may EAT the FRUIT OF ANY TREE in the garden, EXCEPT the TREE of KNOWLEDGE of what is good and what is bad. YOU MUST NOT EAT the FRUIT OF that TREE, IF YOU DO, YOU WILL DIE the SAME DAY." (15-17)
"Then GOD said, 'IT IS NOT GOOD FOR THE MAN to LIVE ALONE. I will MAKE a suitable COMPANION TO HELP HIM. So HE TOOK some SOIL from the GROUND and FORMED ALL the ANIMALS and all the BIRDS. Then HE BROUGHT THEM TO the MAN TO SEE WHAT HE WOULD NAME THEM; and that is how they all got their names. So the man named all the birds and all the animals, BUT NOT ONE OF THEM WAS A SUITABLE COMPANION TO HELP HIM.
Then GOD MADE the MAN FALL INTO a DEEP SLEEP, and WHILE HE WAS SLEEPING, GOD TOOK OUT ONE OF the MAN's RIBS and CLOSED UP the FLESH.
GOD FORMED a WOMAN out of the rib and BROUGHT HER TO HIM." (18-22)
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