Religious narrative · People & kin
I have suffered many things this day in a dream
Jerusalem · c. 30 (narrative)
his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
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- Source
- The Bible, King James Version — Various, 1611. Matthew 27:19
- Record type
- Religious narrative
- Place
- Jerusalem · Christian
- Date
- c. 30 (narrative)
- Uncertainty
- High — Religious narrative; not a historical dream report.
- Imagery
- Partner · A stranger
- Feelings
- Unease · Grief
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
- She came to say a final goodbye Mizhou (Zhucheng), China · c. 710
- Fear not to take unto thee Mary Nazareth, Galilee · c. 1st century (narrative)
- My sister came through the keyhole Ithaca (setting) · c. 8th century BCE
- The five-coloured brush taken back Southern China · c. 500 (Liang)
- Glass after glass of champagne England · before 1911
- A masked man asked for his bone back Huangkeng, China · c. 795