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- - Divination I :: Oneiromancy (https://www.snitchseeker.com/term-26-august-november-2010/divination-i-oneiromancy-76425/)

She looked interestingly at the teacher. She was very curious as to what it was, but history wasn't really her fav subject.

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Originally Posted by Miss Lissy Lou (Post 9760973)

"Dream interpretation is one of the oldest forms of Divination...one of the oldest and most unique examples of this was the Ramesside Dream-Book. Does anyone know which ancient culture that book was from?" he asked the class. Yay history!

Lina raised her hand more excitedly, being able to go into history and culture instead. "The Ramesside Dream-Book, also called the Ramesside Dream Manual, and sometimes just the Dream Book by enthusiasts, is from the pre-Hellenistic Egyptian era. The papyrus it was translated from was found in Deir el-Medina, and is dated to the period of the reign of Ramesses the second, around 1275 BC."

Amy thought for a moment about the question... she had no idea! she listened intently to the lesson and continued to scribble down notes about the dream book

Adeline deeply payed attetion. Her grandma was a seer, and her mom always told her she had a special gift. Hmmpp. She didn't know any answers so she just staired at the proffesor and her classmates, letting the information soak into her brain taking notes with her chocolate flavored ink.

Joshua couldn't figure out how to spell ... what was it again? Oni ... something, something? But that was okay - at least he had understood what it was! Sort of! It was dreams stuff.

He listened to his classmates' answers, mentioning a book and Ancient Egypt. ANCIENT EGYPT WAS COOL! "Did they find the book inside one of the pyramids, Sir?" He excitedly asking, waiving his arm around in the air. "With a mummy holding it tightly?"

He could just picture the finding of the Something-Something-Dream Book!

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Nolan chuckled and nodded. "Yes, sometimes symbols can have very...random meanings. Although at times this can be good...the stranger the dream, the more you have to interpret!" he explained.

He KNEW teaching a lesson would cheer him up! These kids had such clever answers.

Nolan nodded. "Right you are...for simplicity's sake, we're going to have a set list of symbols and their meanings when we do our readings, the same one we used last term," he explained with a smile.

"Dream interpretation is one of the oldest forms of Divination...one of the oldest and most unique examples of this was the Ramesside Dream-Book. Does anyone know which ancient culture that book was from?" he asked the class. Yay history!

Daniel smilled smugly to himself . He was right for once. But he didn't agree that it was fun having more to interpret.Having less seemed better to him. It would give him a headache interpriting dreams.

Oh new question. He'd seen this himself on a muggle school trip to some museum. It was strange how much he remembered " Well sir it's from the Ancient Egyptians. It had something to do with Ramesses II so it was probably made during his rein?" He could live with that answer

Arabella-Marie listened to the question that the professor asked and raised her hand and said "It is Ancient Egypt sir"

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"Hmm," Emmaleigh thought, "I don't remember that from the book." But as she sat there thinking about the word, something sparked her memory. "Ramesside, Ramesside," she repeated in her head. Could it have anything to do with muggle history? She raised her hand before saying. "Does it have a-anything to do with the R-ramesses, from muggle h-history?" she asked before adding. "He was a E-egyptian Pharaoh."

Alice hurried into the class and took a seat next to Rubiey and pulled out her belongings. She smiled at her friend reassuringly, more for herself than Rubiey, and focused her attention to Professor Reynolds who looked very tired. Poor guy. "Hi Professor Reynolds," Alice said with a small wave and just loud enough so he could hear. She was ready for class

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"Good morning," Nolan said once again as the last of the students entered the room. That looked like it was going to be the last of them, so he hopped off his desk and headed over the chalkboard.

"Alright, I'm going to get started with class now, since it seems the last of our final arrivals are here. As some of you recall, I asked you last term what some of your interests were in Divination...I find all sorts of branches fascinating, but just because I enjoy Tasseography doesn't mean everyone else does," he said. He did LOVE those tea leaves. "Now, while I can't promise that EVERYONE will find EVERY lesson incredibly interesting, it did help me get a feel for what you all wanted to see, so I'm hoping I've better tailored my lessons to make them more enjoyable for you...and hopefully they're interesting enough to keep you awake," he added with a slight smirk in Rose's direction.

"Now, can anyone tell me what Oneiromancy is?" he asked.

Alice had no clue what that was, so she just sat and listened to everyone else answer. She had a feeling this was going to to be a class she really needed to pay attention in.

Victoria was making notes and listening to the Professor, the questions and the answers. She wondered what she will need for her exams.

Jack raised his hand yet again. "Would that be Egypt?" It seemed the Egyptians were interested in everything. -.-

Sophia smiled. Divination was so... fasinating. She raised her hand slowly, thinking about her answer. "It came from the Ancient Egyptains, sir." she said, grinning at her professor.

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Nolan nodded. "Right you are...for simplicity's sake, we're going to have a set list of symbols and their meanings when we do our readings, the same one we used last term," he explained with a smile.

"Dream interpretation is one of the oldest forms of Divination...one of the oldest and most unique examples of this was the Ramesside Dream-Book. Does anyone know which ancient culture that book was from?" he asked the class. Yay history!

Adeline heard the question and said like a geiness brains "Ancint Egypt, pretty sure" she said with a confident look on her face. Ahh, she loved divination with all her heart.

Jason stared at the professor as though she had just murdered his cat... He had no clue what it was, and as a matter of fact he didn't care much either. Divination was Jasons least favourite subject, he didn't even know why he was here - but he was. And so he just listened to the other pupils all copy each others answers right infront of him...

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"Well," Daisy said raising her hand. "I think it's from some where in Egypt."

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Scribbling away, Keefer looked up from his notes and raised both his hands. "I believe that would be the Ancient Egyptians, Professor Reynolds. Hopefully their book is more reliable than their idea of worshiping cats."

What was there on this planet that was more annoying than a cat?

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Jenny looked up once again. This sounds like a question worth answering; Jenny likes reading about ancient cultures sometimes. Hm...the Egyptians seem to be superstitious when it comes to their gods and all that stuff, so why not?

"Ancient Egypt?" Jenny replied nervously. Hopefully that was a good guess.

Vilhelmiina listened to everyone around her answering questions. Dream Interpretation, Ancient Egyptians. She smiled to herself. "Egyptians are awesome." She said quietly to herself.

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Originally Posted by Macavity (Post 9760985)

Simon listened to all the answers various fellow students gave to the first question the professor gave the class. His quill moving across parchment as he took notes on what was being said. As the next question was asked, Simon decided to take a chance on this one and raised his hand to answer.

"Ancient Egypt " he replied as he lowered his hand back to the table in front of him.

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Originally Posted by feltbeatslover22 (Post 9760988)

Trixie raised her hand to answer the question, a grin on the sixth years face. She really did actually enjoy Divination a lot. "Was it the Ancient Egyptians Professor?" she asked but it was almost stated as a fact. She thought she had it correct, in fact she was pretty certain but it was always good to get things checked wasn't it? "From Deir el-Medina to be more specific" that was if he wanted detail.

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Originally Posted by Roselyn (Post 9760993)

Writing down the topic on the top of the page in her notebook, glaring at her writing utensil for it's boring-ness, the Slytherin leaned back in her seat before writing down what the definition of oneiromancy was. Ooh question, she knew the answer to. "The ancient Epgyptians." she said, raising her hand slightly before putting it down after answering. That was right...right?

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Originally Posted by Emishlon (Post 9760994)

Woooot, she got the question right. She was getting good at this.
Hmmm, Ella definitely rememebered reading about this kind of Divination somewhere. The Ramesside Dream-Book.......?
"Ancient Egyptian culture?" She said with her hand raised. That was the only culture that sprung to mind really.

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Yeah! Points for Huffies. Awesome.

And then, hmmmm, Treyen wasn't sure, but he raised his hands nonetheless, there were one sort of people that liked dreams and stuff, "Egypt, Professor" he said, and if he was wrong, then that's what he was here for, to learn.

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OH! She knew this one. Moving schools a lot, meh seemed she had actually learned something. She stuck her hand up before opening her mouth and saying "Ancient Egyptians ?" she said before putting her hand down at looking around at the rest of the class.

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Anicent cultures? Finn was pretty sure that there were only a few ancient cultures? So if he really didn't know the answer he could just take a guess? He thought for a few minutes, before raising his hand. He was sure that it was that one, from what he remembered vagely. "Isn't it from the Egyptian culture?" He inquired as he glanced around the room, grinning at Lexi, who seemed to be staring at him.

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Carin raised her hand when she heard the next question - she'd almost missed it, having been thinking about the Professor's reply to her previous query. So basically, it turned out that any interpretation might be correct... well, that wasn't very helpful. She'd say it's a downside of the subject rather than the magic of it...

It would be magical if a prediction did come true, though.

She was striking lucky today, seeing as they were covering a topic she knew a thing or two about, just when she most needed to start gaining back the points she'd lost. Oooh she liked dreams!

"That would be Ancient Egypt, sir, sometime around 1213 BC while Ramesses II was ruling," she replied. Well, the monarch was easy, considering the name of the book.

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"Wasnt it Egypt?!", Fee raised her hand.
She wasnt quite sure about that but she had decided it wouldnt be to bad to say something wrong. She was there to learn.

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Riley had been sitting there writing down as much notes as he possibly could. He had NO divination expereience at all at his old school and he had met Professor Nolan in Diagon Alley and he wanted to look good for the guy who saved his shoes.

He listened and watched as a few other people raised their hands and he thought he had heard that name of the book before, when he was reading his Divination textbook. "Professor I think the oracles and priests used that book in Ancient Egypt and the Nile River civilizations." he said with a bright grin, yep he knew that answer!

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Arabella-Marie listened to the question that the professor asked and raised her hand and said "It is Ancient Egypt sir"

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Jack raised his hand yet again. "Would that be Egypt?" It seemed the Egyptians were interested in everything. -.-

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Sophia smiled. Divination was so... fasinating. She raised her hand slowly, thinking about her answer. "It came from the Ancient Egyptains, sir." she said, grinning at her professor.

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Adeline heard the question and said like a geiness brains "Ancint Egypt, pretty sure" she said with a confident look on her face. Ahh, she loved divination with all her heart.

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"Well," Daisy said raising her hand. "I think it's from some where in Egypt."

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"Yes, points to all of you! Ancient Egyptians definitely used that book for dream interpretation, showing just how far back this certain form of Divination goes. Even people in the ancient world knew their dreams held some importance in their everyday lives." he explained. He turned around to scribble some more notes on the chalkboard for them. Hopefully they understood that the notes would be VERY important.

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Nolan let out a hearty laugh. "I'm sure it was discovered in the pyramids, since I'm fairly certain that most artifacts were discovered there...even though I can't say that for sure, since I'm no historian," he said with a chuckle. "I'm sure the book was not found with a mummy though. They probably held onto their gold necklaces and such instead," he told him.

"One thing that people need to be careful of when interpreting dreams is a false awakening. Can anyone tell me what that is?" he asked them. It was very important they knew what it was before interpreting dreams of their own!

Hearing the rest of the class answer after him, Simon had some idea that his answer was the right one. Still Simon couldn't help smiling a little as Professor Reynolds confirmed that his answer was indeed correct and that he was rewarded in turn. Guess I have some clue whats going on, he mused to himself as he continued to listen.

"Would that be believing you have woken up and gone about events only to really wake up after ?" he half-questioned as he answered.

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Originally Posted by Miss Lissy Lou (Post 9761312)

[B]""One thing that people need to be careful of when interpreting dreams is a false awakening. Can anyone tell me what that is?" he asked them. It was very important they knew what it was before interpreting dreams of their own!

Great Brittany finally thought she knew something. She smiled Brightly and raised her hand "Professor i think it is A false awakening is a vivid dream about awakening from sleep." She said hoping it was right. "sorta like a double dream i guess."

False... awakening? Umm.. Cameron hazarded a guess. "Sirrr." She put up her hand and spoke. "Would that be.. like, when people are having a dream and then they wake up from within that dream and believe they're awake? And they dream.. like.. normal everyday events happening? Is that right?" It didn't really sound right. The Prefect made a face. Hmm..

Trixie raised her hand once more. This dream business was VERY interesting, well it was to her at least. "Professor. Is that when you have a very vivid and life like dream that you are waking up from your slumber?" she started. "It's quite common to also dream yourself doing your usual tasks, so it really feels like you HAVE actually woken up when in fact your are still dreaming" she continued. "It could be rather confusing or even distressing to whomever it is happening to. It's pretty much a dream within a dream" she explained further.

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One thing that people need to be careful of when interpreting dreams is a false awakening. Can anyone tell me what that is?" he asked them. It was very important they knew what it was before interpreting dreams of their own!

Cora thought about it for a minute and seemed that the answer was fairly obvious. She raised her hand and said, "Professor, isn't that when you are dreaming and you thing you have awaken. You usually dream that you are in the same room that you fell asleep in and you go about you normal morning business just to actually wake up and figure out that you were still dreaming?

Sophia raised her hand again. "A false awakening, sir, is a vivid dream about awakening from sleep." she said. "After they wake up in their dreams, they are likely to start dreaming about morning rituals." she said, again. "Such as cooking, cleaning, and other things of the sort." she said. Wow. That was a long answer. she thought.