Dream

Hellenic religion

• Dream is used in Divination.

  Artemidorus writes a professional handbook for interpreting dreams. Dream-reading here is a Greek technical service, not temple incubation and not Ifá.

  from Artemidorus of Daldis · Oneirocritica, 2nd century CE

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• Dream is used in Dream incubation.

  Incubation is a method for soliciting a dream. Artemidorus reads dreams that have already arrived; incubation tries to make one arrive in a holy place.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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• Dream appears in Hellenic religion.

  Artemidorus’s book is a Greek intellectual product about dreams as signs that can be classified.

  from Artemidorus of Daldis · Oneirocritica, 2nd century CE

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• Moon is associated with Dream.

  Artemidorus classifies dreams that involve celestial lights among the images a professional interpreter might be asked to read.

  from Artemidorus of Daldis · Oneirocritica, 2nd century CE

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• Dream is associated with Soul.

  Some books treat dreams as what a soul does while the body sleeps. Artemidorus is more a classifier of images than a metaphysician of soul; keep the pairing interpretive.

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Mesopotamian tradition

• Dream appears in Mesopotamian tradition.

  Gilgamesh’s epic treats dreams as narrative foreknowledge: Gilgamesh’s meteor-and-axe dreams are read as signs of Enkidu, and Enkidu’s dream carries knowledge of the dead. That is Mesopotamian epic material, not Artemidorus’s Greek handbook.

  from Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 1200 BCE (this recension)

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Nahua tradition

• Dream appears in Nahua tradition.

  Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records temictli in dream and omen ethnography — named dreams among signs and night experience. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.

  from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577

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Roman religion

• Dream appears in Roman religion.

  Virgil’s Aeneid seats dreams among Hector’s warning in Troy and Tiberinus’s river vision in Latium. A named dream in that epic, not Asklepios incubation dump and not a psychology checklist.

  from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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Buddhist traditions

• Dream appears in Buddhist traditions.

  Watson’s Lotus Sūtra lists dream-omens and dream-visions among the blessings of those who keep this sūtra. Named dream speech in that sūtra, not Gilgamesh dream alone and not Artemidorus craft.

  from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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Norse tradition

• Dream appears in Norse tradition.

  Baldrs draumar in the Poetic Edda seats Baldr’s ill dreams among the death-foretelling speech. A named dream craft in that poem, not Asklepios incubation and not a self-help dream dump.

  from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014

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Islam

• Dream appears in Islam.

  The Qur’an narrates dreams as true signs in Yūsuf’s story and related vision-speech. Islamic dream attestation in that revelation, not modern dream-dictionary dumps and not prophecy as the wider messenger-word alone.

  from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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