PubMed · 6540421
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R B Daroff, I Osorio. 1984. The function of dreaming.. https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.34.9.1271
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Human life is divided into two thirds wakefulness and one third sleep. A newborn child sleeps to strengthen, the adult for regeneration. At the end of life man sinks down into the sleep of death: Hypnos and Thanatos are twin sons of the Queen of Night. Myths from different cultures are influenced by the experience of sleep and its inner world of pictures, the dreams. Artists, painters and sculptors let their visions float steadily into new pictures, and creatures of sleep formed out of diverse materials. Devine sleep, sleep for new life, sleep of health, creative sleep, prophetic sleep, sleep for revelation and for decisions.
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In each of three dreams reported to me fortuitously within a few days of each other, the patient was anxious about a forthcoming medical examination. Two of the patients reported a sense of guilt for immoral behavior; the feared illness could be interpreted as punishment.