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Seit jeher beschäftigt der Traum unser Denken. Er fasziniert und erscheint doch als zutiefst fremd: etwas Andersartiges, Unwirkliches. Was aber ist es, das den Traum von der Wirklichkeit unterscheidet?

Dreams have occupied the human mind since time immemorial. They fascinate us, but they also seem deeply foreign. They're different and unreal. But what is it that really differentiates dreams from reality? Petra Gehring takes us on a journey that begins in ancient Greece and stretches to the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Age, the Age of Enlightenment, and Romanticism, all the way to psychoanalysis and contemporary brain research. But she has more to offer than a fascinating review of the changes in dream theory. Her philosophical history of the differentiation undermines a view of "reality" we all too often take as self-evident.