Tory and Mikah explore the history of dreams in mythology before interpreting three dreams from listeners. Featuring: space, dead bodies, wizards, smart home tech, and drama club.

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Dreams in Mythology

• Greek & Roman Mythology
  • Oneiroi: Morpheus, Phobetor, and Phantasos
  • Dreams are messages from the gods.
• Norse Mythology
  • Dreams can predict the future.
  • Dreams are messages from the gods.
  • Dreams are a way to speak with mystical beings.
• Egyptian Mythology
  • Egyptian dream dictionaries were among the first examples of dream interpretation.
  • Dreams were sorted between good omens and bad omens.
• Hawaiian Mythology
  • Dreams are "soul sleep," a time to communicate with one's ancestral guardians.
  • Dreams can teach us songs, dances, cures for ailments, and provide us with guidance.
• Japanese Mythology
  • The Baku is a mostly benevolent dream devourer shaped from a bear, elephant, and ox. It will eat away one's nightmares.
• Nightmares
  • Nightmares aren't dark, spooky horses. Mares are a mythological fiend that rests on the chest of sleeping victims, suffocating them.
  • Many, many languages have a word for nightmare that uses "mare" as its root.
  • It was believed that sage, blessed amulets, the Baku, a dreamcatcher, a prayer, a worry doll, and more could ward off nightmares.

Dreams

• Listener Markus: A dream about space, dead bodies, competence, and, perplexingly, a kitten in a fish bowl.
• Listener Brian: A dream about a whimsical wizard that loves to talk about smart home tech — particularly his smart trash can and smart sewing machine.
• Listener Wei: A dream about drama club, sponsorship, leadership, and anxiety.

Send in your dreams:

• email: [email protected]

• site: lucid.show

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Sources

• Liberman, Anatoly (2005). Word Origins And How We Know Them. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-19-538707-0. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
• Norse Folklore, The Night Mare - Spangenhelm
• How Different Cultures Protect Themselves From Bad Dreams - Van Winkle's
• Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.633 ff. Via Wikipedia)
• Hesiod Theogony, 212. Via Wikipedia
• Ovid. Metamorphoses. Book XI, 641. Via Wikipedia
• Turville-Petre, E.O.G. 1964. Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia. p. 232. Via Norse Mythology
• Loebel-Fried, Caren. Hawaiian Legends of Dreams. University of Hawaii Press, 2005.