Dreams unite us more than we can imagine. We all spend half of our existence sleeping, suspended in a non-place between heaven and earth. What we dream can help us live better, as long as we keep it in mind.
In particular historical moments, such as during a war, like this in the midst of a pandemic, dreams can bring us closer even miles away.
How many of us will have happened in the last year to dream of going out without the mask, or to have the desire to hug someone? In many, as evidenced by the forums for sharing dream material born in this period, digital diaries that guard an inestimable yet underestimated anthropological and psychological treasure.
Telling dreams about them has become an obsolete practice in the “modern” West. Modesty, haste and disinterest have meant that the contents that our brain produces during the night have lost their meaning.
There was a moment in human history, however, in which the dream was considered sacred and not as a mere esoteric chemical phenomenon or at the most useful for psychoanalysis, but as a place of the collective mind where it is possible to enter into profound contact with oneself, with other human beings and with an extraordinary and therapeutic archetypal baggage object of study already in antiquity even before psychoanalysis.
In fact, as early as the fourth century BC, in Greece it was possible to ask for specialized advice on the god of medicine Asclepius asking to be able to sleep in an area of ​​his temple Abaton, hoping to receive a message that would help the applicant to clarify their concerns. The next morning, a Therapeutae, the therapist, collected his story and together they analyzed the dream clues from which a healing program was developed. It was a real dream therapy, akin to today’s psychoanalysis.
In episode 16 of the podcast Call the Coach! we talk about the therapeutic power of the dream itself and why it is important to share them again. The protagonist of the episode is the anthropologist Arianna Cecconi, Researcher affiliated with the École des hautes Études en sciences sociales, she teaches Anthropology of Religions at Milano Bicocca University, scholar of dreams and their role within cultures, especially in the Peruvian one, e author of the books Teresa of the oracles (Ed. Feltrinelli) and de Dreams come from outside (Edit Press), in which he investigates the dreamlike contiguity between the peoples of the world starting with the Andean ones.
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