Dream Galaxy

Research case · Cities & buildings

A cannon before the Arch of Constantine

Rome (dreamed) · before 1912

she sees the triumphal arch of Constantine. A cannon stands before it, to the right of it a bird, to the left a man. A shot flashes out of the tube; the projectile hits her; it goes into her pocket, into her purse.

Original text — Psychology of the Unconscious (trans. Beatrice M. Hinkle), C. G. Jung; trans. Beatrice M. Hinkle

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Source
Psychology of the Unconscious (trans. Beatrice M. Hinkle) — C. G. Jung; trans. Beatrice M. Hinkle, 1916 (translation). Part I, Ch. I
Rights
Public domain (US)
Record type
Research case
Place
Rome (dreamed) · Swiss
Date
before 1912
Uncertainty
Moderate — From Jung’s Psychology of the Unconscious (trans. Beatrice Hinkle, 1916). Public domain in the US; protected in life+70 countries until the end of 2031.
Imagery
Gate · City · War · Bird · A stranger
Feelings
Fear · Wonder

How traditions have read this kind of dream

Psychological

Houses, corridors and endless stairs are frequent dream settings. Some writers read buildings as figures for the self; others note simply that dreams rebuild the spaces we move through every day.

cf. Stevenson, A Chapter on Dreams (1888)

Mythological

Labyrinths, towers and underground cities appear in myths from Crete to Babel — built places where people lose their way, reach too high, or find hidden kingdoms.

Greek myth; Genesis 11

Chinese traditions

Tang tales like “The Governor of Nanke” place a whole kingdom of palaces inside a dream, only to reveal it as an ants’ nest — a lasting image for the brevity of worldly glory.

Li Gongzuo, c. 802

These are cultural lenses, not a diagnosis.

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