Old wisdom
Making a dream good
Friends gather to turn a troubling dream toward a better meaning.
The Talmud (Berakhot 55b) describes hatavat chalom, "making a dream good": a person troubled by a dream gathers three friends who help turn it toward good. It also says that "a dream not interpreted is like a letter not read". Its modern twin is imagery rehearsal: rewriting the dream while awake so that a better version takes its place.
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Sources
- Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 55a–b
- Morgenthaler et al., AASM position paper on nightmare disorder, 2018
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