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Dream as Symptom, Dream as Myth: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Dream Narratives

Many of us have an image of a classic anthropological approach to dreams: in "traditional" cultures, dreams are used to predict the future; dreams are part of "folk healing;" dreams are a social phenomenon. As the anthropologist Ellen Basso has put it, folk dream theories tend to be "progressive" or forward-looking, in contrast to the "regressive" Western dream theory, which uses dreams as a wi...

Health for all? Dream on!

Dream incubation: ancient techniques of dream influence

Dream incubation refers collectively to the practices, rituals, techniques and efforts that an individual applies to intentionally evoke helpful dreams. Derived from the Latin verb incubare (in'upon' + cubare 'to lie'), the term connotes the support and nurturance provided by a laying mother bird for her developing egg. The parallels with dream influence are all too appropriate; in antiquity, t...

DREAM study and its impact on India.

P denotes a stage prior to clinical onset of diabetes. This includes two conditions namely Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) and Impaired Fasting Glucose (IFG).1,2 Over one third of subjects with prediabetes develop diabetes within five years.3 Individuals with pre-diabetes are not only at high risk for developing diabetes but are also considered to be at increased risk for coronary artery disea...

DREAM model

Modelling transport and deposition of caesium and iodine from the Chernobyl accident using the DREAM model J. Brandt, J. H. Christensen, and L. M. Frohn National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Atmospheric Environment, Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. Box 358, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark Received: 11 April 2002 – Accepted: 14 May 2002 – Published: 24 June 2002 Correspondence to: J. Bran...