Supernatural Beliefs Throughout History
Ancient Egyptians: believed that dreams were messages from their gods, and were used to predict the future. Priests acted as dream interpreters.
Ancient Egyptians also predicted future events by watching and interpreting the moves of sacred bulls as they romped in the courtyard.
Ancient Greeks believed dreams were messages from their gods. They believed in both True and False dreams. False dreams showed what should not be done, or what would not happen.
Ancient Romans believed that dreams were divine messages and used them as oracles of the future.
Ancient Sumerians kept dream journals which recounted a dream, where and when the dream sequence took place, how the dreamer felt about the dream, and what the dreamer believed its message to be.
An ancient Arab dream ritual dictated that to prepare for your dreamtime/bedtime, you should clean your body, sleep in a certain position, meditate or pray, and fast.
In ancient China, some believed that a dreamer's soul left the land of the living to visit the land of the dead—and that it was possible for the soul to separate from the body and fail to return.
The following quote by Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu, is my all-time favorite. "I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
Did you see the future from the here and now? Did you sense a loved one's return from the hereafter? See a ghost?
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