Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

dream experience treated as real presence

dream_experience_treated_as_real_presence

A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


guiana amerindian

  • Among the Indians of Guiana: Being Sketches Chiefly Anthropologic from the Interior of British Guiana ZZOLIAN HARP. / ATHLETIC SPORTS. . 327 - / TT TT / WRESTLING SHIELD.; lines 14645-14690 confidence: medium

    The passage refers to belief in the reality of dreams and says that, in sleep, people think themselves present among dream surroundings because they see or think they see themselves there.

    The passage attributes to the Indians a belief in the reality of dreams and says they think themselves present among dream surroundings because they see or fancy they see themselves there.

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