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Precognitive dreams are the most widely reported occurrences of precognition. [3] Usually, a dream or vision can only be identified as precognitive after the putative event has taken place. When such an event occurs after a dream, it is said to have "broken the dream". [4] [5] "Joseph's Dream", a painting by Gaetano Gandolfi, c. 1790.
Earlier, the head of psychology at Harvard Medical School, Walter Cannon, coined the term "voodoo death" [4] to describe a response of "primitive people" dying of fear. Based on Cannon's concept, Barker argued that hearing a premonition of one's death may result in a deep fear which could affect the body's immune system and result in death.
The physician William Barrett, author of the book Death-Bed Visions (1926), collected anecdotes of people who had claimed to have experienced visions of deceased friends and relatives, the sound of music and other deathbed phenomena. [8] Barrett was a Christian spiritualist and believed the visions were evidence for spirit communication. [9]
Dream telepathy – The ability to telepathically communicate with another person through dreams. Precognition (including psychic premonitions ) – The ability to perceive or gain knowledge about future events without using induction or deduction from known facts.
On Divination in Sleep (or On Prophesying by Dreams; Ancient Greek: Περὶ τῆς καθ᾽ ὕπνον μαντικῆς; Latin: De divinatione per somnum) is a text by Aristotle in which he discusses precognitive dreams. The treatise, one of the Parva Naturalia, is an early inquiry (perhaps the first formal one) into this phenomenon. In ...
Condensation – one dream object stands for several associations and ideas; thus "dreams are brief, meagre and laconic in comparison with the range and wealth of the dream-thoughts." Displacement – a dream object's emotional significance is separated from its real object or content and attached to an entirely different one that does not ...
Oneiromancy (from Greek όνειροϛ 'dream' and μαντεία (manteia) 'prophecy') is a form of divination based upon dreams, and also uses dreams to predict the future. Oneirogen plants may also be used to produce or enhance dream-like states of consciousness.
The Interpretation of Dreams (German: Die Traumdeutung) is an 1899 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex.