The motivating drives behind dreams and nightmares in ancient egypt according to freud's theory

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The ancient Egyptians put quite a bit of emphasis on dreams, although they had no verb for dreaming.

It may suggest that they did not consider it an activity but rather a visual phenomenon, which was an uncontrollable phenomenon external to the dreamer.

They linked sleep to death (and afterlife), felt that the messages delivered in their dreams could achieve the desire, cure an illness, give the power and help them in important decisions, such as where they build a temple to the point of when they wage war.

It may be used as a window to see the dead and their activities.

However, there were types of scary dreams, which bring Devils and evil spirits.

As sometimes the result was a positive beneficial experience, as is attested in New Kingdom royal texts and elite hymns that relate, the awe-inspiring could have contacted a dreamer with a god or a goddess.

There was another more disturbing belief that dreams could also allow the vulnerable sleeper to be watched or even assaulted by the hostile dead, while today we call these events 'nightmares' and consider them psychological phenomena.

The cause of dreams was not ascribed to any particular demon, but rather to the generic hosts of hostile dead and other chaotic beings who had crossed over from the afterlife.

According to Freud's theory, there were motivating drives behind all these types of dreams and nightmares, which is based on linking dreams to unconscious psychological life.

It may be returned to one of the instinctive repressed desires, which stored in the subconscious, it makes its way during the sleep from the subconscious to the conscious, and it reveals itself as a dream.

Or it may be a different desire from a waking life; some ideas that exist before conscious after it contains conflicting motives.

It received support during sleeping from one of the emotional elements.

So, the dreams may be emerging from the ego.