Dreams have baffled us before our species stood upright. They were seen as messages from the spirits. In ancient Greece, sleeping temples to the God of Healing,
Asclepius, promoted dream healing. The sick went in the temple and slept. When they awoke, they told the priests their dream. Sometimes, the dream alone would seem to spontaneously heal them. The priests would try and help heal the patient based on the dream. But perhaps it wasn't the gods who sent the dreams - perhaps it was their own bodies....
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Image of sleeping cat by Arianne van Noordt for SXC.
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