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A dream dictionary (also known as oneirocritic literature) is a tool made for interpreting images in a dream. Dream dictionaries tend to include specific images which are attached to specific interpretations. However, dream dictionaries are generally not considered scientifically viable by those within the psychology community.
Dreams were also considered prophetic or omens of particular significance. Artemidorus of Daldis, who lived in the 2nd century AD, wrote a comprehensive text Oneirocritica (The Interpretation of Dreams). [9] Although Artemidorus believed that dreams can predict the future, he presaged many contemporary approaches to dreams.
The Interpretation of Dreams (German: Die Traumdeutung) is an 1899 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex.
Raphael's dream (1821). Johannes Riepenhausen and Franz Riepenhausen. The recollection of dreams is extremely unreliable, though it is a skill that can be trained. Dreams can usually be recalled if a person is awakened while dreaming. [98] Women tend to have more frequent dream recall than men. [98]
The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) is a multi-disciplinary [1] professional nonprofit organization for scientific dream research , [2] [3] founded in 1983 [4] and headquartered in the U.S. [5] [6]
Research into dreams includes exploration of the mechanisms of dreaming, the influences on dreaming, and disorders linked to dreaming. Work in oneirology overlaps with neurology and can vary from quantifying dreams to analyzing brain waves during dreaming, to studying the effects of drugs and neurotransmitters on sleeping or dreaming.
Oneiromancy (from Greek όνειροϛ 'dream' and μαντεία (manteia) 'prophecy') is a form of divination based upon dreams, and also uses dreams to predict the future. Oneirogen plants may also be used to produce or enhance dream-like states of consciousness.
‘The Divine Grammar … leading to the more nice Syntax … of Dreams, Visions, and Apparitions,’ &c., 1703, (a second title is ‘The Fountain of Monition and Intercommunion Divine,’ &c.; at p. 162 is a section with separate title, ‘The Pool of Bethesda Watch'd,’ &c.; at p. 213 begins ‘The Alphabet,’ a dream-dictionary; at p. 264 ...