The ancient civilizations held dream interpretation to high standards. They believed that they were messages from the Gods or the demons. For example, the Babylonians believed that the good dreams were sent from the Gods that they prayed to, and the bad dreams were sent from the devils. They connected most of their dreams to their religion as they had a Goddess of dreams who averted bad dreams. This proves that dreams, and what they meant, were very important to this ancient civilization. It proves that they took their dreams very seriously, because they connected it with their religion. Another example of connecting dreams to religion were the ancient Greeks. The Greeks had their own God of sleep called Hypnos, who had the ability to make
