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Posted: 03 May 2022

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The practice of dream incubation -- various techniques employed during wakefulness to help a person dream about a specific topic or obtain solution to specific problems -- can be traced back four thousand years to the Mesopotamians. But it was fifteen hundred years later, in ancient Greece, that dream incubation became wide-spread. People seeking healing dreams traveled to shrines dedicated to Asclepius, son of Apollo and the Greek god of medicine, in the hopes of receiving dreams that would reveal the a use of their illness or, better still, a cure for it. And, in the practice that was probably as alarming then as it would be today, non-venomous snakes were sometimes placed inside the temples and allowed to crawl about among the dream-seeking supplicants. This was not done to induce paralyzing insomnia or terrifying nightmares, but to help induce the desired dreams. Snakes were the emblem of Asclepius, and you can still see the association between snakes and medicine today in the logos of innumerable medical organizations that feature a snake-entwined rod, the staff of Asclepius. ~ Page 186

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