Dreamtime
Maybe the Abos and the Indians were just mistaken.
The dream world is definitely real, but why does it have to mean what we want it to? Like everything else, it has a reality independent of our opinion, and perhaps that reality is even more wonderful than the one we have made up about it. And it is especially wonderful because we can learn what it is, through reason.
The world science has shown us has always turned out to be more interesting, and certainly more beautiful, than the one the shamans imagined.
I love to pee on the parade. I just can't help myself.