... considered divinely inspired and were thought to carry prophecy and guidance. The priests provided advice on state affairs and military campaigns. An Egyptian book dated back to about 1250 BCE, the Chester Beatty Papyrus, is the oldest dream interpretation book in existence. In this text, the dream was first described, for example, "a man sees his bed on fire", next, it ... , dreams were also treated seriously. During the Shang Dynasty, c. 1600 – 1046 BCE there were special court officials who divined the dreams of the Emperor and the aristocracy. One ancient book classified dreams and...

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... the subject of controversy. Egyptian papyrus documents dating back to 2000 B.C. discussing dreams and their interpretations. In ancient Greece the dreamer was to be in contact with the Gods. Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen believed that dreams often contained physiological information that heralded future medical illnesses. In succeeding centuries, Sigmund Freud led the modern age of dream research in his monumentally original ... book of the Interpretations of Dreams. According to Freud, dreams are disguised thoughts from the unconscious mind. Freud spoke about Manifest Content, whic...

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