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The dream state is the one path to heightened consciousness that we all know from birth; it has been used to secure creativity, health, foreknowledge, and ecsta

This collection of studies on Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium covers four main themes: the place of dreams, imagination and memory in the Byzantine

An exploration of the wakeful character of the dream and the dreamful character of wakefulness. Dreams have attracted the curiosity of humankind for millennia.

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