The Book of Dreams holds a special place in ancient Egyptian culture, where dreams were regarded as powerful conduits for communication between the earthly realm and the divine. Each of the 108 dreams listed in the papyrus was considered a sacred message from the gods, offering insights into the fate and destiny of the dreamer.
Such was the importance they conferred on them, that they also had remedies against bad dreams: to avoid the announced catastrophes you should eat as soon as you wake up fresh bread and macerated herbs, while pronouncing the following words:
“Come to me, come to me, mother Isis;
Look, I perceive what is far from my city”.
Some of the keys they used to interpret dreams were the following: If someone saw himself, for example, burying an old man, this was interpreted as a good sign since it was identified as a sign of prosperity.
However, if you drank beer it was an omen of suffering or if, on the contrary, you ate crocodile meat, that meant that you would become a civil servant.
