The Epic of Gilgamesh

What’s the importance of dreams in the flood story in The Epic of Gilgamesh?

This is from the story The Epic of Gilgamesh. They talk about the flood from page 145-148.

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The god Ea, warned Utnapishtim (in a dream I think) and instructed him to build an enormous boat to save himself, his family, and "the seed of all living things."

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