Dreams in the Ancient World

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According to dreams in the ancient world persons light is believed to be consists of knowledge. It is believed that there are three worlds for a person one is here in the world; the other is in the other world and, third one in intermediate state which is the state of sleep. The intermediate state helps the person helps the person to see both the states.“On being born hat person assuming his body, becomAes united with all evils: when he departs and dies, he leaves all evil behind”(p125). The intermediate state does not have any roads; no joy’s no happiness’s but himself.

The dream magic of ancient Egyptians give great amount of importance to dreams. They believe that divine powers made known through dreams, and there is another world because of the dreams they see while asleep. The people who see meaningful dreams and have the power to interpret them were given higher power in Egypt, sometimes they are given gifts, and power to rise to higher honor. Ancient Egyptians believed the future is reviled through dreams so the magicians use various devices such as magical pictures, magical words. To obtain visions from the God they make drawings of the God , and Envelop their hand in the strip of black cloth that has been consecrated to the God and lie down to sleep without speaking a word, even answering a question.

In ancient times people were cured through dreams. The village is Nydsens in the city of Acharaca there was a cave, by nature that is wonderful. Whenever they have people who are diseased prisests from teh village sleep in the cave on the behalf of the sick people through the dreams prescribe the cure. The people should be religious and pray to Gods. Some sick people go themselves and stay in the cave for days ...

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...is when dreamer watched two people throwing tomatoes at each other.” (P293). Both dreams are similar in dream content.

Furthermore, studies were done to see the relation between body movement and dreams. Studies have shown that most eye moments involve body movement. “ the possibility that body movements interpreting eye movement periods, yet followed by additional ocular activity, might mark the end of one dream sequence and beginning of another”(p294) . This tells us that body movements play great role in dreams they are used to mark the end of the dream. On another hand laboratory experiments have shows that men have shown erections during The REM and they seem to last for more than half an hour. This erection will still occuer even if the dreamer had sex before sex before going to sleep or not. The erection has shown to decrease as people were getting older.

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