On Divination in Sleep
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On Divination in Sleep (or De Divinatione per Somnum, or On Prophesying by Dreams) is a text by Aristotle in which he discusses Precognitive dreams. The text is an early -and perhaps the first formal- inquiry into this phenomenon . His criticism of these claims appeals to the fact that "the sender of such dreams should be God", and "the fact that those to whom he sends them are not the best and wisest, but merely commonplace persons." Thus "Most [so-called prophetic] dreams are, however, to be classed as mere coincidences".
