Most of our dreams are caused by our unconscious minds ordering and making sense of complex data. Maybe this is what Pilate’s wife was experiencing in her disturbing dream about Jesus: deep misgivings she’d been ignoring or repressing during the day that surfaced powerfully in her dreams at night. I have often experienced similar things on a lesser scale. For instance, I will sometimes wake in the night troubled by something I’ve said or done the previous day, or “noticing” for the first time how someone spoke or reacted in a recent encounter. Occasionally I will become aware in my half-waking
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