Dreams and its Psychology in Islamic Culture

Abstract

Dreams have always been a mystery to human cognition and its mysterious nature derives the curiosity to know about them more and more. Over years scientists have studied the process of dreaming and passed on different theories based on experimentation and many philosophers have also written and explained the process behind these dreams. The nature of dreams varies from culture to culture. This project is going to focus on the concepts behind Dreams in context to Islamic culture. Islamic tradition is rich with the theories of the imagination and the expressions of dreams along with their descriptions and visionary experiences. Sleep is an act that shows the glory of the supreme power that created this universe. During the time spam of sleeping, our body and soul and temporarily and incompletely separate. There are many similarities between death and Sleep. During the phase our soul travels the unseen world/ another dimension. During this half-dead stage, we experience a succession of images that our subconscious creates. The design product which is going to be an illustrated novel, explains the process of dreaming and explain about the nature of the dreams that occur while Sleep.