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This video explores how people in the Middle Ages understood dreams and nightmares, and why they sometimes treated them almost like moral crimes. Drawing on medieval theology, law, and everyday religious practice, it looks at how dreams were used as evidence of sin, as signs of temptation from the devil, and as warnings about divine punishment. The video also examines church teachings, sermons, confession manuals, and court records to show how dreams could shape a person’s reputation, spiritual status, and even their legal standing.

Moving through medieval Europe from roughly the 12th to 15th centuries, the documentary traces how ideas from the Bible, Augustine, and later scholastic thinkers influenced popular beliefs about sleep and the imagination. It explores the line medieval writers drew between prophetic visions, ordinary dreams, and dangerous fantasies, and how that line helped define guilt, innocence, and the boundaries of acceptable desire in Christian society.