Shabeer Ahmad Lone
Dreams have always lingered at the threshold of consciousness and the ineffable, occupying a space where the personal, the symbolic, and the universal converge. Across cultures, civilizations, epochs, geographies, contexts, -from the sacred temples of Mesopotamia and Egypt to the ethical and spiritual laboratories of Islamic scholarship, and from the systematic oneiromancy of classical Greece to the psychodynamic explorations of Freud and Jung-dreams have functioned as both mirrors of the mind and guides for human action. They arrive at the mind’s edge as fragile emissaries, often disquieting, sometimes luminous, yet always laden with meaning. They intertwine neurobiology with numinous experience, everyday life with archetypal patterns, the individual psyche with collec