All attempts to classify the many kinds of literary dreams or visions seem unsuccessful those that are religious and those that are profane, those occurring in sleep and those in waking hours, those that are clearly didactic, and those that are playfully fanciful are all known as dreams, visions, or dream visions. The term vision or dream literature is applied generally to narrations that use dreams or visions as an artistic device. Fascinated by the phenomenon, man has speculated about the nature of dreams, their cause, classification, and meaning (see dream visions.) Many writings of the ancients, the Bible, and early and late Christian and pagan records contain dreams and visions that purport to be revelations from the divinity: warnings, omens, instructions, prophecies.
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