Dream Books Are Older Than You Think
Did you know that books of dream interpretation have been a part of Western culture for well over 3 millennia? Sources cited: Juliette Harrisson, Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination: https://amzn.eu/d/94pIJye Artemidorus, The Interpretation of Dreams, trans. Martin Hammond: https://amzn.eu/d/cbK18OK Bremmer, J., 1987. ‘Oedipus and the Greek Oedipus Complex’, in J. Bremmer (ed.), Interpretations of Greek Mythology, London and Sydney, 41–59. Stuart Clark, Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culturehttps://amzn.eu/d/iEJbvOK Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams https://amzn.eu/d/5kLGTge R. Grant, The Illustrated Dream Dictionary https://amzn.eu/d/1gNMsYN Thomas Gregor, "Far, Far Away My Shadow Wandered...": The Dream Symbolism and Dream Theories of the Mehinaku Indians of Brazil’ American Ethnologist, Nov., 1981, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Nov., 1981), pp. 709-720 https://www.jstor.org/stable/643960 Gillian Holloway, The Complete Dream Book https://amzn.eu/d/7wcElH5 Denise Linn The Hidden Power of Dreams: The Mysterious Power of Dreams Revealed https://amzn.eu/d/gzwwmwF Maria Mavroudi, A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and Its Arabic Sources https://amzn.eu/d/frtDT3S Oppenheim, A. L., 1956. ‘The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East. With a Translation of an Assyrian Dream-Book’, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, NS, Vol. 46, No. 3, 179–373. Kasia Spakowska, 2003. Behind Closed Eyes: Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient Egypt Stickgold, R., A. Malia, D. Maguire, D. Roddenberry and M. O’Connor, 2000. ‘Replaying the Game: Hypnagogic Images in Normals and Amnesiacs’, in Science, NS, 290, No. 5490, 350–53. Wigzell, F., 1999. ‘The Dreambook in Russia: Persistence and Popularity’, in History Workshop Journal, No. 48, 114–32. Dream Forth: http://www.dreamforth.com/search.php?query=fig&type=dreams&page=1 Image credits: Portrait of Sigmund Freud: Max Halberstadt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Freud mind iceberg: Sarang, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Cover of the Illustrated Dream Dictionary from amazon.com Logo for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat from Wikipedia Papyrus fragment from Artemidorus: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Map of ancient Assyria: Donald Alexander Mackenzie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Lion hunt of Assurbanipal in the British Museum: photo author’s own Hippocrates: Paulus Pontius, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Kneeling statue of Hatshepsut: Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Statue of Akhenaten via Wikimedia Commons Death mask of Tutankhamun: en:User:MykReeve, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons Bowl of figs: Ben Aveling, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Adam: Lucas Cranach the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Other photos author’s own 00:00 Intro 02:43 Sigmund Freud 07:39 Dream Books 17:03 Ancient Dream Books
Did you know that books of dream interpretation have been a part of Western culture for well over 3 millennia? Sources cited: Juliette Harrisson, Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination: https://amzn.eu/d/94pIJye Artemidorus, The Interpretation of Dreams, trans. Martin Hammond: https://amzn.eu/d/cbK18OK Bremmer, J., 1987. ‘Oedipus and the Greek Oedipus Complex’, in J. Bremmer (ed.), Interpretations of Greek Mythology, London and Sydney, 41–59. Stuart Clark, Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culturehttps://amzn.eu/d/iEJbvOK Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams https://amzn.eu/d/5kLGTge R. Grant, The Illustrated Dream Dictionary https://amzn.eu/d/1gNMsYN Thomas Gregor, "Far, Far Away My Shadow Wandered...": The Dream Symbolism and Dream Theories of the Mehinaku Indians of Brazil’ American Ethnologist, Nov., 1981, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Nov., 1981), pp. 709-720 https://www.jstor.org/stable/643960 Gillian Holloway, The Complete Dream Book https://amzn.eu/d/7wcElH5 Denise Linn The Hidden Power of Dreams: The Mysterious Power of Dreams Revealed https://amzn.eu/d/gzwwmwF Maria Mavroudi, A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and Its Arabic Sources https://amzn.eu/d/frtDT3S Oppenheim, A. L., 1956. ‘The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East. With a Translation of an Assyrian Dream-Book’, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, NS, Vol. 46, No. 3, 179–373. Kasia Spakowska, 2003. Behind Closed Eyes: Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient Egypt Stickgold, R., A. Malia, D. Maguire, D. Roddenberry and M. O’Connor, 2000. ‘Replaying the Game: Hypnagogic Images in Normals and Amnesiacs’, in Science, NS, 290, No. 5490, 350–53. Wigzell, F., 1999. ‘The Dreambook in Russia: Persistence and Popularity’, in History Workshop Journal, No. 48, 114–32. Dream Forth: http://www.dreamforth.com/search.php?query=fig&type=dreams&page=1 Image credits: Portrait of Sigmund Freud: Max Halberstadt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Freud mind iceberg: Sarang, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Cover of the Illustrated Dream Dictionary from amazon.com Logo for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat from Wikipedia Papyrus fragment from Artemidorus: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Map of ancient Assyria: Donald Alexander Mackenzie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Lion hunt of Assurbanipal in the British Museum: photo author’s own Hippocrates: Paulus Pontius, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Kneeling statue of Hatshepsut: Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Statue of Akhenaten via Wikimedia Commons Death mask of Tutankhamun: en:User:MykReeve, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons Bowl of figs: Ben Aveling, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Adam: Lucas Cranach the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Other photos author’s own 00:00 Intro 02:43 Sigmund Freud 07:39 Dream Books 17:03 Ancient Dream Books