Expressions de la perception du rêveur au sein des sanctuaires guérisseurs en Grèce classique (images et textes)

Abstract

Starting from ancient Greece’s traditional conception of a received and nonconstructed dream, the elaboration of which is out of the dreamer’s control, we are going to explore the different forms of expression of a dreamer’s perception according to the epigraphic and iconographic testimonies of the dreams they had in the healing sanctuaries of the classical era, by questioning ancient thought as well as contemporary research on the part played by sensations and memory in the dream process. We will mention the “materials” displayed in the healing sanctuaries and likely to feed the obvious content of expected dreams on the eve of incubation before considering the way sensorial perceptions show themselves in those dream tales and how the subjective perception of a dreaming state is expressed compared to a waking state one.

Keywords

• dream process
• healing sanctuary
• obvious content
• residues of the day
• sensorial perception
• waking state