The Interpretation of Dreams an edition of 600 copies, which did not sell out for eight years. "The Interpretation of Dreams" later gained in popularity, and seven more editions were published in Freud's lifetime. Because of the book's length and complexity, Freud also wrote an abridged version called "On Dreams". The original text is widely regarded as one of Freud's most significant works. Freud spent the summer of 1895 at Schloss BelleVue near Grinzing in Austria, where he began the inception of "The Interpretation of Dreams". In a 1900 letter to Wilhelm Fliess, he wrote in commemoration of the place: While staying at Schloss
Dream interpretation treatise on dreams, in which he was the first to distinguish between dream interpretation and the nature and causes of dreams. In "The Canon of Medicine", Avicenna extended the theory of temperaments to encompass "emotional aspects, mental capacity, moral attitudes, self-awareness, movements and dreams." Ibn Khaldun's "Muqaddimah" (1377) states that "confused dreams" are "pictures of the imagination that are stored inside by perception and to which the ability to think is applied, after (man) has retired from sense perception." Ibn Shaheen states: Interpretations change their foundations according to the different conditions of the seer (of the vision),so seeing handcuffs during