Dreams And Their Meanings

The word “dream” is most likely related to the West Germanic   draugmus , (meaning deception, illusion, or phantom) or from the Old Norse   draugr (ghost, apparition) or the Sanskrit   druh   (seek to harm or injure). You cannot snore and dream at the same time. Adults dream off and on, for a total of about an hour and half to three hours every night. By the time we die, most of us will have spent a quarter of a century asleep, of which six years or more will have been spent dreaming—and almost all of those dreams are forgotten upon waking. The average person has about 1,460 dreams a year. That’s about four per night. Egyptian pharaohs were considered children of Ra (Egyptian sun god) and, thus, their dreams were seen as being divine . In the Chinese province of Fu-Kein, people called on their ancestors for dream revelation by sleeping on graves. Scientists suggest that the dreams of fetuses are mostly composed of sound and touch sensations, given the l...

1. Morpheus Morpheus   Few cultures delved as deeply into the world of dreams as the Greeks. As with most facets of life, they had a god that personified the dream world: Morpheus. He was the son of Hypnos, the god of sleep, and had the power to enter the dreams of mortal men to deliver messages from the gods Morpheus first appeared in the epic poem Metamorphoses , which was written by the first century poet Ovid. Though he could take the shape of a human when he was delivering dream messages, his true shape was a demon-like figure with massive black wings that allowed him to pass quickly through the dream world. Morpheus was chosen as a messenger because, out of Hypnos’s thousands of children, he was the best at disguising himself as a human.  2. Dream Catching The Ojibwe are a Native American tribe who originally lived near the shores of Lake Superior in the northern United States. According to their own legend, however, their people began on the...