Literary dream · People & kin
I dreamt there was an Emperor Antony
Alexandria (setting) · c. 1607 (play)
I dreamt there was an Emperor Antony. O, such another sleep, that I might see But such another man! … His face was as the heavens, and therein stuck A sun and moon, which kept their course, and lighted
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- Source
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare — William Shakespeare, c. 1593–1607. Antony and Cleopatra, V.ii
- Record type
- Literary dream
- Place
- Alexandria (setting) · British
- Date
- c. 1607 (play)
- Uncertainty
- Moderate
- Imagery
- Partner · Sun · Moon · Sky · Ruler · Faces
- Feelings
- Longing · Grief · Awe
How traditions have read this kind of dream
Psychological
Family members, friends and strangers populate most dreams. Freud read many such dreams as wishes in disguise; contemporary researchers emphasise continuity with waking relationships and concerns.
Freud, Dream Psychology (1920)
Mythological
Dreams in epic and scripture are often addressed to someone — a wife waiting for a husband, a son receiving a vision for his family — and are told aloud to be understood.
Odyssey XIX; Genesis 37
Chinese traditions
Confucius lamented that he no longer dreamed of the Duke of Zhou; in Chinese letters, dreaming of someone is a measure of how much they are on one’s mind.
Analects 7.5
These are cultural lenses, not a diagnosis.
Dreams that share its images
- Heaven, surrounded by dazzling light United States · before 1911
- A samurai racing the temple clock to enlightenment Tokyo, Japan · 1908
- The sun, the moon and eleven stars Canaan · undated (text c. 6th c. BCE)
- Dreaming of my late wife at her window Mizhou (Zhucheng, Shandong), China · 20th day of the 1st lunar month, 1075
- Ask what I shall give thee Gibeon · undated narrative
- Walking ahead with immense effort England · before 1911