20.500.12556/RUL-171789 Comforting dreamscapes exploring the agency of the dead through dreams among spiritual people in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina The article examines how spiritual people in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina experience the agency of dead significant others through dreams. Many anthropologists have shown that dreams of the dead are understood as communication between the divine and human worlds, or between the dead and the living, and are thus perceived as particularly important. This study examines how ideas about the afterlife among spiritual people in Sarajevo shape the understanding of those dreams and how, in turn, dreams can also influence the individual’s understanding of the afterlife. It shows that while spiritual interpretative frameworks dominate in the understanding of these dreams, Islamic and psychoanalytic perspectives are also occasionally applied. Accounts from interlocutors reveal that the appearance and emotional state of the people in these dreams, as well as the messages they convey, can play a significant role in their influence on the living. Furthermore, the paper shows that due to the generally positive view of the afterlife characteristic of alternative spirituality, the dead appearing in dreams of spiritual people in Sarajevo predominantly have a comforting agency, providing reassurance, a sense of support, gratitude and a feeling of continuing bonds with their deceased loved ones. ethnology folklore afterlife dreams the dead alternative spirituality continuing bonds Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina etnologija folkloristika posmrtno življenje sanje mrtvi sodobna duhovna gibanja spiritualizem odnosi z mrtvimi Bosna in Hercegovina true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2025-09-02 14:35:58 2025-09-02 14:36:03 2025-09-03 04:28:45 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 139-166 Vol. 96 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-01-01 2-187:39(497.6Sarajevo) 1406-0957 10.7592/FEJF2025.96.ivnik 246373379 Ivnik_Folklore__vol._96.pdf Ivnik_Folklore__vol._96.pdf 1 3A92946A1D755EDED25832E916371EF5 9c8f53dc84dba2e14d1481883105bc583ea64064aaa067587a3c2f001d655237 87139259-87f9-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=215269 https://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol96 1 3e99b375-87f9-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=215267 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0