ABC of sleep disorder. Dreams and medical illness.

Doctors and investigators who are interested int influence of mindover matter have long thought that dreams may reflct:r Q fluence health ,The ancient Greeks, inicluding Hippocrates and ],believed not only that dreams could yield both diagnostic and progn iformation, but also that they were the medium through which the gods alleviated illness. Aristotle believed that during sleep the mind received stimuli from both the external environment and from within the body, and that these served as the building blocks on which dreams were constructed. There are certain aspects of life that the mind is aware of only through the recollection and understanding of dreams. "Dreamers" by Albert Moore.