Primitive people, unable to explain the psychology of dreaming or to discover the causes of sleep, observed that, whereas man can, when awake, control his thoughts and fancies, yet he is utterly incapable, when in sleep, either of bringing about such dreams as he might wish, or of directing and ruling those that offer themselves to his faculties hence they were led to attribute dreams to outside and supernatural agencies. We should very likely see a vestige of this simple and primitive philosophy in the reverence shown at all times by the Arabs to a man sleeping.īut the mystery of sleeping is enhanced by the phenomenon of dream which accompanies it. What philosophy of sleep sprang from the observation of phenomenon, we do not know but like all phenomena the causes of which are not obvious, sleep came, in the course of time, to be considered as the effect of the Divine agency and as something sacred. There is in sleep something mysterious which seems, from the earliest times, to have impressed man and aroused his curiosity. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download.
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