Religious narrative · People & kin
My sheaf stood upright
Canaan · undated narrative
For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
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- Source
- The Bible, King James Version — Various, 1611. Genesis 37:7
- Record type
- Religious narrative
- Place
- Canaan · Hebrew Bible
- Date
- undated narrative
- Uncertainty
- High — Religious narrative; not a historical dream report.
- Imagery
- Food · Crowd · Friend
- Feelings
- Joy · 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
- A damson with a snail inside England · before 1911
- Strawberries, huckleberries, omelette Vienna, Austria · c. 1897
- Last night I dreamt we were at Simony Hut Aussee, Austria · summer 1896
- A melon sweeter than any Luoyang, China · c. 60 CE (as told)
- A knife opened his heart, and he could learn Eastern Han China · c. 150 (as told)
- Two Alexanders in battle, crowned with corn Cappadocia, Anatolia · 321 BCE