Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen believed that dreams often contained physiological information that heralded future medical illnesses. ... "In The Alchemy of Discourse" where Paul Kugler sets out a development, use, and interpretation of language that he derives from the work of Jung. ... Kugler argues that "Perhaps the reason dreamers, poets, and madmen display such an uncanny sense of the imagination is that their perceptual systems-like those of the oral tellers of myths-are tuned to the invariant archetypal structures of sound and image" (Kugler 1982, 28). ... The difference was that one...

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No one knows the complete answer yet, but dream researchers are learning more and more about the reasons why we tell ourselves stories as we sleep, and how these tales reflect and relate to waking life. ... According to Aristotle's accurate definition," a dream is thinking that persists in the state of sleep". ... Jung disagreed with Freud's theories stating that the most effective method of dream interpretation was the use of series correlation. ...

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