Dreams can be exciting or terrifying. Often, they are complicated and confusing. And for much of
human history, we've tried to make sense of
them. The ancient Egyptians believed that
dreams were messages from the gods. The
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ancient Greeks and Romans believed that dreams
showed prophecies, or visions of the future. Later, in the 1800s, early psychologists believed that
dreams centered on thoughts that people wanted to avoid, windows into what they called the
"unconscious mind."
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