It is important to first understand the long history of dreams themselves. A dream is defined by Oxford Dictionary as, “a succession of images, emotions, sensations, and ideas that occur during periods of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep”. This inexplicable event has confounded civilization after civilization, throughout the course of written history. And it still continues to this day to cause wonder and raise questions in our society. The first written record of dreams started 3100 B.C. with the Sumerians in Mesopotamia.
Ancient civilizations that resided in fertile crescent, began to take careful notes of the dreams that they and their leaders would have. Firmly believing that they where messages from the gods. They believed that the dreamer …show more content…
Historians and archaeologists alike have found a multitude of recorded history of dreams in Ancient Egypt which dates back all the way to 2000 B.C. when the Egyptians wrote down their dreams on papyrus. The Egyptians placed high value on dreams. In fact, they placed such high value on dreams that they built special temples devoted to dreaming itself. It was believed that if a sick person slept in one of these temples, they would receive messages from the gods to help them heal. The Egyptians also had a recorded the first ever “dream dictionary” that had over 200 recorded messages from the gods themselves. This civilization opened the doors to the land of dreams for the next great …show more content…
Rather than believing that dreams came from the gods, or from supernatural forces they believed it was something within themselves. After following their history the Associations for Research and Enlightenment found on May 5, 2012 that this idea was first introduced by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Later, Plato added to the theory by proposing that dreams signaled a person’s mental state of mind. Hippocrates, the founder of modern medicine, thought that dreams carried a diagnostic property that allowed the dreamer access to the root of their aliment. Aristotle expanded on these ideas and suggested that all dreams are related to memories or images from the dreamer’s waking
Ancient civilizations that resided in fertile crescent, began to take careful notes of the dreams that they and their leaders would have. Firmly believing that they where messages from the gods. They believed that the dreamer …show more content…
Historians and archaeologists alike have found a multitude of recorded history of dreams in Ancient Egypt which dates back all the way to 2000 B.C. when the Egyptians wrote down their dreams on papyrus. The Egyptians placed high value on dreams. In fact, they placed such high value on dreams that they built special temples devoted to dreaming itself. It was believed that if a sick person slept in one of these temples, they would receive messages from the gods to help them heal. The Egyptians also had a recorded the first ever “dream dictionary” that had over 200 recorded messages from the gods themselves. This civilization opened the doors to the land of dreams for the next great …show more content…
Rather than believing that dreams came from the gods, or from supernatural forces they believed it was something within themselves. After following their history the Associations for Research and Enlightenment found on May 5, 2012 that this idea was first introduced by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Later, Plato added to the theory by proposing that dreams signaled a person’s mental state of mind. Hippocrates, the founder of modern medicine, thought that dreams carried a diagnostic property that allowed the dreamer access to the root of their aliment. Aristotle expanded on these ideas and suggested that all dreams are related to memories or images from the dreamer’s waking