The document discusses various theories and perspectives on dreams throughout history. It provides details on: 1) Ancient Egyptian theories that dreams were messages from gods and priests would interpret dreams for guidance. Greeks also believed dreams carried divine messages. 2) Sigmund Freud's theory that dreams reflect deepest desires from childhood. Carl Jung disagreed and believed dreams fulfill unconscious wishes. 3) Common dream symbols and their potential meanings such as the sun indicating important people, rain indicating blessings, and trees representing leaders. 4) Types of dreams according to Islamic tradition - true dreams, thoughts during the day, and dreams from Satan. Dreams can have positive or negative meanings.

1. DREAM
S

2. WHAT ARE
DREAMS?
 Dream is a word used to describe the
subconscious experience of a sequence of
images, sounds, ideas, emotions, or other
sensations usually during sleep, especially
REM sleep.
• It is known that dreams are strongly
associated with REM sleep.

3. 
Ancient Egyptian Theories:
Originally
dreams were thought to be part of the
supernatural world. Dreams were messages from
the gods sent to the villagers during the night
perhaps as an early warning device for disaster or
good fortune. From what we can tell, the
Egyptians certainly were the first dreamers to
attempt interpretation of their dreams, because
of the fact that they published a book on some of
the conclusions they had come to about dream
symbols. In fact, Egypt was where the process of
"dream incubation" began. When a person was
having troubles in their life and wanted help from
their god, they would sleep in a temple, when they
would wake the next morning a priest, which was
then called a Master of the Secret Things, would be
consulted for the interpretations of that night's
dreams.

4. 
Greek Philosophy on Dreaming:
The Greeks didn't begin seriously considering dreams until 8th century
BC.
Homer, in his Iliad, describes a scene wherein Agamemnon receives
instructions from the messenger of Zeus in a dream. Greeks also
believed that dreams carried divine messages, but they could only
be interpreted with the aid of a priest similar to those Egyptians.
Dreams also aided in their practice of medicine, sending sick people to
particular temples in those places where the "gods of the body" had
their shrines. The ailing Greeks would visit these temples, perform
various religious rites, sleep, and hope to have a dream that assured
a return to good health. Night after night they would sleep and
sometimes this would go on for weeks or even months until they
had the "right" dream.

6. 
Sigmund Freud:
Freud's idea was that our dreams were reflection of our
deepest desires going back to our childhood. To
Freud, no dream was of entertainment value, they all
held important meanings.

Carl Jung:
A student of Freud for some time, disagreed on the theory.
Jung believed that dreams reminded us of our wishes,
which enables us to realize the things we
unconsciously yearn for, and helps us to fulfill our
own wishes.
Today, most psychologists agree with Jung's theory, and
it is this theory that makes dream interpretation
something that we can use in our everyday live.

7. 
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REM stands for “rapid eye
movement”
REM sleep is a state of
sleep in which brain
activity is most like
wakefulness.
Adult humans spend about
a quarter of their sleep time
in REM (approximately 90120 minutes), much of it
dreaming.

8. 
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During a typical night, humans experience 4 or 5
periods of REM sleep (short periods at the
beginning of the night and longer periods as the
night progresses).
Amount of REM sleep varies with age- a newborn
baby typically spends more than 80% of total sleep
time in REM.

9. 
REM sleep behavior disorder is a sleep disorder in
which you appear to physically act out vivid, often
unpleasant dreams with abnormal vocal sounds and
movements during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
You normally don't move during REM sleep, a normal
stage of sleep that occurs many times during the night.
You may have other sleep disorders with REM sleep
behavior disorder. REM sleep behavior disorder often
may be associated with other neurological conditions,
including Lewy body dementia, Parkinson's
disease and multiple system atrophy.

10. 
Lewy body dementia:
Causes a progressive decline in mental
abilities. It may also cause visual
hallucinations, which generally take the
form of objects, people or animals that
aren't there.

Parkinson's disease:
Affects your movement and may cause
shaking (tremor), muscle stiffness
(inflexibility), slowing of movement .

Multiple system atrophy:
Affects many areas of your brain and
nervous system. Multiple system
atrophy potentially impairs your body's
systems that modulate your blood
pressure, heart rate.

11. 
MANIFEST DREAM CONTENT:
What we remember about the dream.

LATENT DREAM CONTENT:
The actual thoughts and emotions in the
unconscious dream.

12. 
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Freud proposed that dreams protect sleep,
which might be disturbed by the arousal
of unacceptable wishes.
Ferenzi proposed that dreams may
communicate something that is not being
said outright (subconscious thoughts).
Dreams may remove parasitic nodes and
other "junk" from the mind during sleep.
Dreams may also create new ideas
through the generation from random to
advance.
Some researchers have found that
dreaming can also help people find
solutions to elusive problems.

14. There are 3 types of dreams: Imam at-Tirmidhi ‫ رحمه ال‬narrates from
Muhammad Ibn Sirin ‫ رحمه ال‬who narrates from Abu Hurairah ‫رضي ال تعالى‬
‫ عنه‬that Prophet ‫ صلى ال عليه وسلم‬said, “There are three types of dreams:
1)True
Dreams
2) A dream in which a person is speaking to himself (i.e. whatever you were
thinking about in the day time, you see at night)
3)A dream from shaytaan in which he wants to make you sad ”
Abu Salamah ‫ رضي ال عنه‬once said, “Sometimes I would see a dream that
would be heavier on me than carrying a mountain. But since I heard this
hadith I wouldn’t care about the bad dream I would see.”
Narrated Abu Sa‘id Al-Khudri ‫ :رضي ال عنه‬The Prophet ‫صلى ال عليه و سلم‬
said, "If anyone of you sees a dream that he likes, then it is from Allah, and
he should thank Allah for it and narrate it to others; but if he sees something
else, i.e., a dream that he dislikes, then it is from Satan, and he should seek
refuge with Allah from its evil, and he should not mention it to anybody, for
it will not harm him." [Sahih Muslim]

15. •The
sun indicates agreat man, such
as king, governer,father,master,son,
husband or relative. Its also indicative
of wealth, possessions, goodness,
livelihood and gold.
•If a person sees a sun is with him or
on his head or that if he speaks to him
or sees it in his house etc something
good will happen to him with regard
to one of the people mentioned and
his income will increase.
•If a man dreams that the sun turns
into yellow he will become sick.
If he dreams it turns black, this is
indicative of enemy.

16. 
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If a person sees the moon in his house (in a
dream) then the one who was absent will
come to him.
Eclipse of either indicative of death of
whoever is indicated of prominent people,
or indicative of dismissal from his post or
death of parents and wives or loss of
livelihood or disturbing rumors or bad news.

17. •Fighting
between the sun
and the moon is indicative of
war and that kings prevail.
If he sees that happening
during the day then the sun is
going to prevail and the
people of truth will prevail.
•But
if he sees it during the
night then the moon is going
to prevail and the people of
falsehood are going to
prevail, because the moon is
connected to the darkness.

18. • They were created from a smokeless flame of fire.
•Seeing a devil in a dream is indicative of thief a promiscuous
widow or a treacherous (double cross) liar .
•If he dreams that jinn attack him in his house then thieves will
attack him.

19. •If
he dreams that he turns into a jinn he will become more
treacherous (double cross)
•If
jinn stood near his house then some destructions will
occur.
•If
he dreams that he is fighting with satan his religious
commitment will improve.
•If
satan beat him or sees satan happy then his religious
commitment will deteriorate( decline).

20. RAIN:
 Rain is indicative of good and
blessing .
 Rain may also be indicative of
worries.
 “Because of inconvenience of
rain”(AL-NISA 4:95).
 The word water is that
indicative of relief
 “And We send down blessed
water (rain)from the
sky”( QAAF 50:9).

21. •CLOUDS:
Clouds represents a just and merciful ruler who will be
good for the strong and the weak and will be kind to them
or it represents a wise scholar.
•If a person dreams that he turns into a cloud he will
acquire wealth or knowledge and people will get benefit
from his wealth or knowledge.
•If a man dreams that he has a rain loud in his hand he
will acquire wisdom and speak of it.
•If he dreams that he is a cloud he will acquire Halal
wealth or beneficial knowledge.
•If he dreams that he is mixing with clouds and not taking
anything from it, then he will mix a knowledgeable
person without realizing it.

22. RAINBOW:
•If
the rainbow looks green that is
indicative of security from and
injustice from the ruler.
•If
it looks yellow that is
indicative of disease
•If
its red that’s indicative of
bloodshed.

23. GARDENS,TREES,
WATER &
FLOODS
•If a sick person dreams that he entered an unknown
garden that indicates that he will die and enter
Paradise.
•Entering in unknown garden is indicative of grief and
dismissal of the goverrner.
•If there are unknown trees in it that is indicative of
arguments.

24. TREES:
•Tress are indicative of a king their
leaves represent his troops and
weapons, while their fruits represents
his wealth.
•The bark of a tree refers to
inheritance from the dead.
•If a person dreams that he planted a
tree ,if he planted it out of a season or
in place with no water that person
indicated may go through troubles or
even die.
•If he dreams that he is up a tree he
will be safe fro what he was watching
out for.

25. WATER:
•Water refers to a good life.
•Bitter water -trouble and hard life
•Black water drinking it signifies loss of vision, seeing
it in the house means that the house is going to be
destroyed
•Blackish water -troubles in life
•Foul smelling water -Haraam wealth.
•Yellow water -sickness
•Cloudy water-hardships
•Pure water- if he enjoys drinking it he will relief from
sickness.
•Running water in winter and fall is a good sign
•But in spring summer it is a bad sign also indicates
loss of wealth etc

26. •If
•If
the flood benefits the people that is indicative of good
people harmed by floods that is indicative of
something bad.
•The mud that results from a flood is indicative of distress
•The one who walks through it will get a great deal of
distress.

27. •If
a person dreams that he
builds a house then
something good will happen
to him that will befit
(suitable) him.
•If a person dreams that he
enters an unknown house and
doesn’t come back he will
die.
•But if e does come out of it,
he will almost die and then
will recover.

28. DEATH AND DYING
•If
a person dreams that he died and didn’t look good he will be
faced trouble like sickness, imprisonment etc.
•If he dreams that he died without being ill and without looking
dead he will live a long life.
•If he thinks in a dream that he will never die he will be killed in
Jihaad.

29. •If
he dreams that he died on a carpet
he will have luxuries of this world.
•If
he dies on a bed he will rise in
status.
•If
he dies on mattress he will get
something good from his family.

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