Bulletin of the Center Papyrological Studies

The Motivating Drives behind Dreams and Nightmares in ancient Egypt According to Freud's Theory

Bulletin of the Center Papyrological Studies November 1, 2020 Heba Maher Mahmoud Ahmed 2 citations

The ancient Egyptians put quite a bit of emphasis on dreams, although they had no verb for dreaming. It may suggest that they did not consider it an activity but rather a visual phenomenon, which was an uncontrollable phenomenon external to the dreamer. They linked sleep to death (and afterlife), felt that the messages delivered in their dreams could achieve the desire, cure an illness, give...