Oneiromancy is a form of divination by the analysis and interpretation of dreams. Oneiromancy is a part of psychoanalysis that intends to look beneath the manifest content of a dream, i.e., what we perceive in the dream, to the latent content of a dream, i.e., the meaning of the dream and the reason we dreamt it. The seminal work on the subject is The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud.
Oneiromancy - Ancient.
In the Tanach, Joseph intrepreted the dreams of the Pharaoh of Egypt; D ...
In the Tanach, Joseph intrepreted the dreams of the Pharaoh of Egypt; Daniel also interpreted dreams.
Artemidorus gives a list of authors mentioned in this longest of the ancient dreambooks. All are lost, but fragments are preserved in Artemidorus and other ancient authors. Aristotle and Plato both discuss dreams in various works. Achmet wrote an edition of Artemidorus Oneirocritica in addition to his own. Astrampsychus was the pseudonymous author of a number of divinatory, magical and medical wor ...
