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The Judeo-Christian tradition also used dreams as a guide to waking behaviour, most notably in the story of Jacob’s dream of the ladder going up to heaven recounted in Genesis, which was seen as a turning point in his spiritual development. Various books from the Old Testament used dreams for guidance – it was assumed that the conventional way for God to communicate with his people was through dreams. Dreams were similarly used in the New Testament; for example, in stories of the Flight into Egypt and the dream of the Magi at the birth of Christ.