Religious narrative · People & kin
Arise, and flee into Egypt
Bethlehem → Egypt · c. 1st century (narrative)
the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt
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- Source
- The Bible, King James Version — Various, 1611. Matthew 2:13
- Record type
- Religious narrative
- Place
- Bethlehem → Egypt · Christian
- Date
- c. 1st century (narrative)
- Uncertainty
- High — Religious narrative; not a historical dream report.
- Imagery
- Child · Mother · Road · A stranger
- Feelings
- Fear
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.
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