d r e a m w o r d s

“Birdsong is the light of dreams.”

—Enrique Enriquez

“In the Ghâyah and other books by practitioners of magic, reference is made to words that should be mentioned on falling asleep so as to cause the dream vision to be about the things one desires. These words are called by (the magicians) ‘dreamwords’ (al-hâlûmah).”

—Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah