“To clean ears that are filled with dirt or pus signifies that one will receive good news from somewhere, whereas to be cuffed on the ears signifies bad news from somewhere. To dream that ants are entering one’s ears is auspicious only for sophists. For the ants are like young men who attend courses to listen to teachers. … To dream that one has the ears of an ass is auspicious only for philosophers, because an ass does not move his ears very quickly.”
–Ephesus. From The Interpretation of Dreams
