What Ancient Humans Actually Believed About Dreams?

Tonight, when you close your eyes, your brain is going to generate an entire world. A world that will feel completely real while it is happening. You have done this every single night of your life, and for almost the entire history of the human species, nobody knew what it was. In this video, you'll discover what your ancestors actually believed was happening when they dreamed, and how those beliefs shaped religions, medicine, and entire civilizations. From the Sumerian dream interpreters of ancient Mesopotamia to the Egyptian dream incubation temples, from the healing dreams of Asclepius at Epidaurus to the Dreamtime cosmology of Aboriginal Australians, you'll see how nearly every culture in human history arrived at remarkably similar conclusions about dreams independently. You'll also learn what modern sleep science, through researchers like Matthew Walker, Antonio Zadra, and Kelly Bulkeley, has confirmed and overturned about these ancient beliefs. If this made you think differently about your own dreams, hit like and subscribe. Drop a comment below — what is the strangest dream you can remember? #dreams #ancienthistory #humanhistory #psychology #neuroscience #sleepscience #mesopotamia #ancientegypt #ancientgreece #dreamtime #aboriginalaustralia #carljung #REMsleep #matthewwalker #anthropology #humanbehavior #mythology #ancientcivilizations #oddlyhuman #sleepresearch #dreaminterpretation #incubation #collectiveunconscious #comparativereligion #brainscience