A summary of sleep reporting and prediction ceremony in Ferdowsi’s Shahname

Abstract

In Shahname of wise of the Tus, a range of ceremonial issues, such as food, clothing, partying, eating, sleeping and dreaming to monarchy rituals with many possible patterns are written, and these are the signs of the perfection of the Shahname, and undoubtedly all of these issues are happened in our lives that their existential philosophy should be studied. One of the things that were most interesting for the ancestors was the prediction of dreams and that part of the astronomy which extracted laws and their effects on human beings’ fate. This paper is about dreaming and prediction ceremony and to explore how events are appeared in our dreams before they have been occurred. And who knows these issues. Was it just the dreams of kings and heroes predicted? Or is it possible for common people’s dreams to be predicted? What is the relation between dream, the unseen worlds and witness?