Dream incubation

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Dream incubation is an ancient healing art that has been almost lost throughout our modern age, but was quite recently revived by researchers in the fields of dreamwork and parapsychology.

It used to be practiced in ancient Greece, when sick people would prepare themselves by fasting, purification and prayer for three days before entering the Dream Temple at the Oracle at Delphi.

They would spend the last night of their ritual in the Dream Temple, asking the gods for a dream of healing which would indicate to them exactly what was needed to start healing (or even a healing dream when upon waking up they would be healed).

In some ways the version of the shamanistic vision or dream quest of native americans was very similar to the early Greeks.