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Back in the little town of his birth

Russia · 1866 (novel)

He dreamt he was back in his childhood in the little town of his birth. He was a child about seven years old, walking into the country with his father on the evening of a holiday. It was a grey and heavy day, the country was exactly as he remembered it; indeed he recalled it far more vividly in his dream than he had done in memory.

Original text — Crime and Punishment (trans. Constance Garnett), Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated by Constance Garnett

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Source
Crime and Punishment (trans. Constance Garnett) — Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated by Constance Garnett, 1866 (original) / 1914 (translation). Part I, Ch. V
Rights
Public domain (US)
Record type
Literary dream
Place
Russia · Russian
Date
1866 (novel)
Uncertainty
Moderate — A fictional character's dream. The dream later turns violent toward a horse.
Imagery
Child · Father · Road · Horse
Feelings
Nostalgia · Unease

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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