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Matching Dreams.
In the summer of 1552, two of the most restless minds in Europe were, as far as anyone can tell, in the same city at the same time.
In 1936, C. G. Jung began a seminar in Zurich on children's dreams. Over the following years it grew into something larger: a survey, delivered to a circle…
You wake with an image in your head: a staircase, a stranger's face, an eclipse. Days later something happens and the image seems to have known it first.
Sometime in 1547, in the Lombard city of Pavia, a quarrelsome professor of medicine went to sleep and did what almost no one in Europe did in 1547: he wrote…
In February 2018 the heritage blog of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow published a post about a sixteenth-century Latin book from the…
Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900, and the dream became a symptom.
In the autumn of 1570 a Bologna professor of medicine in his late sixties was arrested by the Roman Inquisition, held until late December, and made to post…