... Jewish text, provided some guidance on how dreams were to be interpreted. Dream interpretation also appeared in the earliest Buddhist writings. Dreams were categorised by the ancient Buddhists, as omens, divine messages and diagnoses of the dreamer's spiritual, mental and physical health. Also dreams were used as a metaphor for the ultimate emptiness Buddhists believe lie at the heart of all material ... ...

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... gods. The Epic of Gilgamesh, the great tale of a Mesopotamian hero-king written in the Akkadian language during the first millennium BC, is full of dream accounts, many replete with divine omens of danger or victory; in one a nightmare creature leads the hero Enkidu to the "Land of Dust" where the souls of the dead live in perpetual darkness (Fontana). Ancient ... ...

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... it, many people subsequently derive with insights into themselves from studying their dreams, and most modern people consider dreams emotionally significant. Unlike our ancestors who often saw them either as divine premonition or as the bizarre side-effects of indigestion. Freud argued that dreams were wish-fulfillments, and ultimately argued that those wishes were the result of repressed or frustrated sexual ... ...

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