How is Dream interpretation done?

Write the dream down on waking, before speaking. Underline the symbols and the emotion. Ask what in your life resembles it.

Madame Iselda

Living tradition

Dream interpretation

Ancient Greece (Artemidorus), Eastern Europe and all folk tradition.

Dream symbols (water, flying, falling, house) are read with an inherited dictionary and with the dreamer's own life.

How it's done

01Write the dream down on waking, before speaking.
02Underline the symbols and the emotion.
03Ask what in your life resembles it.

With your own tools

A notebook by the bed is worth more than any dictionary.

With Ocluna

Tell Ocluna your dream in your own words; it finds the symbols and suggests the thread that joins them.

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What Madame Iselda tells you

Artemidorus of Daldis wrote the first great dream dictionary in the 2nd century; Freud read and quoted it in 1899.
In ancient Greece people slept in temples of Asclepius to receive a healing dream; the practice was called incubation.
In ancient Greece people slept in temples of Asclepius to receive a healing dream; the practice was called incubation.
Carl Jung recorded and illustrated his own dreams for sixteen years in a red notebook, the Liber Novus, published only in 2009.
In Antiquity true dreams were believed to pass through a gate of horn and deceptive ones through a gate of ivory, as Homer tells in the Odyssey.
Artemidorus of Daldis warned that the same dream does not mean the same thing for a rich person as for a poor person; therefore, before interpreting, he would ask about the dreamer's occupation.
The Berakhot treatise of the Talmud includes the saying that a dream no one interprets is like a letter no one ever reads.
In Naples, the smorfia pairs each dreamed image with a number from 1 to 90 to play in the lottery, and it has been printed in popular booklets since the 19th century.

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This reading is symbolic self-knowledge and entertainment content based on folk traditions. It does not predict the future, is not medical, legal or financial advice, and does not replace qualified professionals.

What Madame Iselda tells you

Artemidorus of Daldis wrote the first great dream dictionary in the 2nd century; Freud read and quoted it in 1899.

In ancient Greece people slept in temples of Asclepius to receive a healing dream; the practice was called incubation.

Carl Jung recorded and illustrated his own dreams for sixteen years in a red notebook, the Liber Novus, published only in 2009.

In Antiquity true dreams were believed to pass through a gate of horn and deceptive ones through a gate of ivory, as Homer tells in the Odyssey.

Artemidorus of Daldis warned that the same dream does not mean the same thing for a rich person as for a poor person; therefore, before interpreting, he would ask about the dreamer's occupation.

The Berakhot treatise of the Talmud includes the saying that a dream no one interprets is like a letter no one ever reads.

In Naples, the smorfia pairs each dreamed image with a number from 1 to 90 to play in the lottery, and it has been printed in popular booklets since the 19th century.