Topic
Every Kingdom of Dream article tagged history — 3 pieces across 2 sections.
Symbols & Meaning
The Interpretation of Dreams shaped a century of thinking about the mind. Almost none of its specific claims are supported by evidence, and a couple of its general ones look better than they did.
Myth & Folklore
The Oneirocritica catalogues thousands of dreams and their outcomes. Its method is more sophisticated than anything that followed it for seventeen centuries, and Freud read it closely.
Myth & Folklore
A historian found hundreds of references to a "first sleep" and a "second sleep" in pre-modern texts. The claim that this was the natural human pattern is more contested than the popular version admits.
