The website ThinkQuest.org was very interesting. It described the start of dream interpreting. Ancient Egyptians were said to have started this due to the fact that they were the first to publish a book about it. The website also described different views on interpreting. Views from Greeks to Romans to Christians to Middle Easterners to Europeans were all included. Different races had different ways of interpreting dreams. For example, interpretation wasn't popular in Greece at first. It became popular through Homer and the Iliad. When it did, the Greeks believed only priests could interpret them, while Jung, a more modern philosopher would say people can interpret their own dreams. Even today there is still not a certain answer as to what dreams mean.
This website was another good start in my research process. It helped me learn more about when people started attempting to interpret dreams. Furthermore, it helped me gain a little more understanding about the fact that there isn't just one answer on what dreams mean and why we dream. One of the ideas I agree with the most is that sometimes dreams are messages from God. Martin Luther King thought that "dreams were the work of the Devil" (unknown). I completely disagree with this. Even before Jesus was born, God used dreams to talk to people such as King David. Another example is when God came to Joseph and told him to marry Mary and that they would have a son and should name him Jesus. These are just two of many times God speaks through dreams. Also, I agree with Jung on the fact that dreams can be interpreted on your own. Though you may need a basic idea of what, for example, a falling dream relates to, I don't think a priest is needed to interpret dreams. It makes so much more sense for someone to interpret his or her dreams because no one else would know the person as well as he or she knows oneself.
unknown. "The History of Dreams." ThinkQuest. ThinkQuest Team, 1997. Web. 29 March 2010. http://library.thinkquest.org/11189/nfhistory.htm.
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