Time And Space in Dream Telling: The Udmurt Example

Abstract

Dreams and the telling and retelling of dreams are popular customs in people’s daily lives. This study focuses on the process of dream telling, which implies time and space, and how the situation of telling a dream becomes ritualistic.
The content of a dream is very important (it can be good or evil) and therefore it is believed and perceived that dreams are signs that both dreamers and listeners will follow. The article will consider these ideas according to the traditional worldview of the Udmurts.