Nietzche--Dreams as Another World
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Nietzche--Dreams as Another World
MISUNDERSTANDING OF DREAMS. In the ages of a rude and primitive civilisation man believed that in dreams he became acquainted with a second actual world, herein lies the origin of all metaphysics. Without dreams there could have been found no reason for a division of the world. The distinction, too, between soul and body is connected with the most ancient comprehension of dreams, also the supposition of an imaginary soul body, therefore the origin of all belief in spirits, and probably also the belief in gods. "The dead continues to live, for he appears to the living in a dream": thus men reasoned of old for thousands and thousands of years.
Could anyone provide sources for the bolded? What evidence is their to support the claim that ancient man held these beliefs?
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