Literary dream · Nature & weather
Two heavenly fruits for two queens
Irāvatī (story city) · c. 1070 (compiled)
Then Bhavání, who is kind to her votaries, pleased with his penance, appeared to him in a dream and gave him two heavenly fruits, and thus commanded him: “Rise up and give your two wives these two fruits to eat, and then, king, you will have born to you two heroic sons.” Having said this, Gaurí disappeared, and the king woke up in the morning and rose delighted at beholding those fruits in his hand.
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- Source
- The Kathá Sarit Ságara, or Ocean of the Streams of Story (Tawney trans.) — Somadeva; trans. C. H. Tawney, c. 1070 / 1880–84 (trans.). Ch. XLII
- Record type
- Literary dream
- Place
- Irāvatī (story city) · Indian
- Date
- c. 1070 (compiled)
- Uncertainty
- High — From the Kathāsaritsāgara, Somadeva’s 11th-century Sanskrit story collection (C. H. Tawney trans., 1880–84); a story-dream, not a personal report.
- Imagery
- Food · Partner · Child · Ruler
- Feelings
- Joy · Longing
Another way to look at this dream
Notes on the images in this dream from psychology, myth, folklore and semiotics. Each names its source.
Partner
Was it your partner now, someone from the past, or someone you have never met? Was the distance between you the same as when you are awake?
Jung · Anima and animus — after the real person
Jung would first read a dreamed partner as your actual partner and relationship. Only then might the figure carry what he called the anima or animus — an inner image of the other — a framing that reflects his era’s ideas about gender.
C. G. Jung, “The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious, “Anima and Animus””, Collected Works 7
Homeric epic Classical text
After twenty years apart, Penelope tells how a likeness of Odysseus lay beside her that night, “such as he was when he went with the host”, and how she took it for real.
Homer, Odyssey XX
Han-dynasty poetry Literature
In one of the Nineteen Old Poems, a wife sleeping alone through the long nights dreams she sees her husband’s face, and he comes for her in a carriage — then is gone.
Nineteen Old Poems, “Cold, cold, the year draws to its end”
Child
Whose child was it — yours, someone you know, or yourself when young? What did the child need?
Jung · The child archetype
Jung described the “child” in dreams and myth as an image of what is not yet — a beginning, small and easy to overlook, that carries a future.
C. G. Jung, “The Psychology of the Child Archetype”, Collected Works 9i
Psychoanalysis Depth psychology
Freud began his theory with children’s dreams, which he found to be plain, undisguised wishes — a trip promised, a treat withheld.
Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), ch. III
East Asian custom Folk saying
In China and Korea (where it is called taemong), “conception dreams” before a birth are a living custom, often retold within families.
East Asian folk custom
Exploration notes, not a diagnosis, a prediction, or evidence of real events.
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