The Sleeping Gypsy (1897) by Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) Source: Museum of Modern Art / Public Domain

Most of us spend a third of our lives asleep, twenty percent of those hours dreaming. Babies dream, the elderly dream, all of us between infancy and old age dream.

Our dream life is mysterious and has captured the fascination of humans since the beginning of recorded history. Theologians, psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, sociologists, artists, writers, musicians, philosophers, and populations around the world have delved into their mystery. In the ancient world, dreams were a source of divination, examined to predict and sometimes forestall future events such as illness, famine, or war. We associate Sigmund Freud and modern psychoanalysis with codifying a method of dre

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