E-raamat: Sleep, vision, and insomnia between religion and science

The study of dreams has its traces found on stone tablets dating back to Sumer, the oldest civilization known to humanity. Some ancient peoples, such as the Greeks, believed that dreams in general were a gift from the gods, to reveal information to humans and plant a specific message in the mind of the sleeping person. Muslim clerics were also interested in dreams and their interpretation, and this became a science in itself for some interpreters such as Muhammad ibn Sirin. Thinkers such as Muhammad ibn Ali Muhyiddin ibn Arabi also paid attention to it in his books "Al-Fusus" and "Al-Futuhat Al-Makkiyya," and " Ibn Khaldun, "Ibn Arabi and Ibn Khaldun sought to interpret dreams, analyze them, divide their types, and know their causes and sources, while Western scholars only began to be interested in studying dreams. Recently, such as Sigmund Freud, who was the first to lay the scientific foundations for the interpretation of dreams in his famous book in 1899, "The Interpretation of Dreams."