Physiological Phenomena of Dreams and Intoxication

Anything that can move us, that seems to take power over us is deified in the ancient world. Apollo and dionysus are central art deities; they are correlated with dreams and intoxication. In a way we haven't quite teased out yet, that apollinian force, that power of dreams, is what gives mani give rise to the visual arts,. The whole total experience of self forgetting is included in intoxication.