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I myself had one of those dreams I felt I was more or less in an astral plain.   I stayed as long as I could.    It was illuminating

Fun fact.... Carl Jung was a psychologist who did a lot of research and study on the subject of dreams... he didn't consider them to be fantasy, but a window into the subconscious... into the spiritual realm.

He's considered one of the founders of alcoholics anonymous in that his studies and work with one patient in particular became the inspiration for the self-help movement and wellness support groups.

It was more than that.... under the influence of alcohol many people lose their inhibitions and self-control.  There's a reason that we often call alcohol-- "spirits" and the connection to the spiritual world seems to open itself to some degree when we lose our grip on this sense of self.  Jung said concerning the addiction some experience with alcohol, to be not a physical craving, but a spiritual longing...  in fact, a desire to be apart from ourselves, and to commune with God.

“on a low level, of the spiritual thirst of our being for wholeness, expressed in medieval language: the union with God.”