practice

Dream incubation

Sleeping in a sanctuary in order to receive a useful dream, known in Greek Asklepieia and in other houses under other names.

Hellenic religion

Dream incubation belongs to Hellenic religion.
Pausanias describes sleeping in Asklepieia for a healing dream. The practice is Greek temple incubation.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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Dream incubation is associated with Knowledge.
The useful dream at Epidaurus is knowledge for a cure. It is not the Pythia’s daytime speech at Delphi.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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Serpent is associated with Dream incubation.
At Epidaurus, as Pausanias tells it, the sick slept in the sanctuary of Asklepios. The serpent belongs to that Asklepian house, not to every snake.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 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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Asklepios is used in Dream incubation.
The sick slept in Asklepios’s precinct for a useful dream. Incubation is the method; Asklepios is the host.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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Healing is used in Dream incubation.
At Epidaurus the useful dream is for a cure. Incubation is one Greek method of asking to be healed.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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Epidaurus is used in Dream incubation.
The sick slept there for a healing dream. The place is the address of that method in Pausanias’s book.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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