Arnaldus de Villa Nova was a 13th century physician, alchemist, and theologian. (He claims to have found the Philosopher’s Stone, and to have amassed great amounts of gold from transmuting lead and other metals.)
According to Van de Castle, he “described the case of a man who dreamed on two successive occasions that his ear was being beaten by a stone. Soon afterward, he developed a serious inflammation of the ear on the same side as he had been beaten on in his dream.” (page 365)
