If interpretation of dreams is true, then it should lead to information about the person that would be difficult to discover otherwise. ... During the dream stage of sleep the brain becomes active in a way that is similar to the way it is active during the day, such as when one is reading a book or observing a play. ... There is no way to give meaning to dreams because they are just an outlet for all the information one receives and for the imagination. Researchers are gradually realizing, considering all of the above points, that dreams are unworthy of being interpreted.Images and sounds in ...

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One of the first organized glimpses into the diagnostics of a dream came in an Egyptian book called the Chester Beatty Papyrus, its author is unknown. ... In later centuries, Hippocrates (a Greek physician), Aristotle (a Greek philosopher), and Galen (a Greek philosopher) believed that dreams often contained physiological information that may be cause of future illnesses. Artemeidorus documented and interpreted thousands of dream reports in his book Oreiocritica (meaning "critical dreams" in Greek). ... That was until Sigmund Freud wrote his book The Interpretations of Dreams in 1900. ...

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