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Literary dream · People & kin

A friend at the bedside, like a breath of wind

Scheria (setting) · c. 8th century BCE

Minerva took the form of the famous sea captain Dymas’s daughter, who was a bosom friend of Nausicaa and just her own age; then, coming up to the girl’s bedside like a breath of wind, she hovered over her head and said

Original text — The Odyssey, Book XIX (trans. Samuel Butler), Homer; translated by Samuel Butler

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Source
The Odyssey, Book XIX (trans. Samuel Butler) — Homer; translated by Samuel Butler, 1900 (translation). Book VI
Rights
Public domain (author died 100+ years ago)
Record type
Literary dream
Place
Scheria (setting) · Ancient Greek
Date
c. 8th century BCE
Uncertainty
High — Epic poem, in Samuel Butler’s public-domain translation.
Imagery
Friend · Storm · House
Feelings
Tenderness · Joy

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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