Sources

This site doesn’t use numbered footnotes - instead, wherever a specific claim rests on a specific text or researcher, that attribution is named directly in the article itself, in keeping with the historical interpretation standard of citing an author and work rather than a vague tradition. This page collects the sources referenced most often, as a single reference point.

Historical Primary Sources

• Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (2nd century CE) - the most complete surviving ancient guide to dream interpretation, cited throughout this site’s dream-theme pages. See Artemidorus and the Oneirocritica.
• Macrobius, commentary on Cicero’s Dream of Scipio (late 4th–early 5th century CE) - the five-fold medieval dream classification. See Medieval Dream Books.
• The Chester Beatty Papyrus III (c. 13th century BCE) - one of the earliest known dedicated dream interpretation texts, from ancient Egypt. See Ancient Egyptian Dream Interpretation.
• The Hebrew Bible and New Testament - dream narratives including Joseph and Pharaoh, Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar, and Joseph in the Gospel of Matthew. See Biblical Dreams.
• Aristotle, On Dreams (De Insomniis) - an early naturalistic account of dreaming. See Ancient Greek Dream Interpretation.
• Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) - see Freud’s Theory of Dreams.
• Carl Jung on archetypes and the collective unconscious - see Jung’s Theory of Dreams.

Modern Sleep and Dream Researchers

• Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman - discovery of REM sleep, 1953. See What Is REM Sleep?
• Calvin Hall and Robert Van de Castle - large-scale dream content analysis and character coding, referenced across many articles including Why Do Dreams Include People We Know?
• Antti Revonsuo - threat simulation theory, 2000. See What Is Threat Simulation Theory?
• J. Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley - activation-synthesis theory. See What Happens in the Brain During Dreams?
• Allan Braun and colleagues - PET-scan neuroimaging of REM sleep. See Why Do Dreams Feel So Real?
• William Dement and Nathaniel Kleitman - early research on dream duration. See How Long Do Dreams Last?
• Robert Stickgold - memory consolidation and dream incorporation research. See How Memories Enter Dreams
• Rosalind Cartwright - dreaming and emotional adaptation, notably during divorce. See Dreams About Divorce or Separation
• Keith Hearne and Stephen LaBerge - experimental validation and induction techniques for lucid dreaming. See What Is Lucid Dreaming?
• Ursula Voss - EEG research on lucid dreaming. See Why Do Lucid Dreams Happen?
• Naomi Eisenberger - social pain and rejection research. See Dreams About Rejection
• Frederik van Eeden - coined the term “lucid dream,” 1913. See What Is Lucid Dreaming?

A Living List

This list will grow as the site does. It reflects sources actually cited in published articles, not a general reading list - if you spot a claim on this site that doesn’t trace back to something on this page (or named directly in the article itself), that’s worth reporting.