DREAM GALAXY

Research case · Nature & weather

A cookbook without instructions

Not stated · Date unknown · contemporary study

I was in the kitchen and wanted to prepare something new to eat. I picked up a cookbook, looked through the index, chose a recipe, and the reality check consisted of reading that recipe because no instructions appeared. From that point onward, I was certain that I was lucid.

Original text — Virtual reality as a metacognitive training tool for lucid dreaming — Supplementary Materials, Andrea Signorelli, Francesco Tormen, Bruna Dal Bianco and Nicola De Pisapia

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Source
Virtual reality as a metacognitive training tool for lucid dreaming — Supplementary Materials — Andrea Signorelli, Francesco Tormen, Bruna Dal Bianco and Nicola De Pisapia, 2026. Supplementary Materials, Reports of Lucid Dreams, Report L10
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Record type
Research case
Place
Not stated · Italian
Date
Date unknown · contemporary study
Uncertainty
Moderate — De-identified lucid-dream report. The English text is the study authors’ translation from Italian; the calendar dream date is unknown. Chinese title and translation are AI-generated editorial drafts, not human-verified.
Imagery
Food · Book

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Notes on the images in this dream from psychology, myth, folklore and semiotics. Each names its source.

Food

Were you eating, being fed, or watching others eat? Had you eaten, or gone without, before you slept?

Hebrew Bible Myth & scripture

In prison Pharaoh’s baker dreams of three white baskets of bakemeats on his head, from which the birds eat. Joseph reads the baskets as three days, within which Pharaoh will lift up his head and hang him on a tree; on the third day “he hanged the chief baker”.

Genesis 40:16–22 (King James Version)

Psychoanalysis Depth psychology

Freud described a dream he could bring on at will: after salted food such as anchovies and olives, he dreamed he was drinking deeply, then woke thirsty. He called it a “dream of convenience”, a dream that substitutes for getting up.

Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), ch. III (Brill trans.)

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Book

Could you read the book? Did it belong to you, or did someone hand it over?

Hebrew prophets Myth & scripture

In a vision Ezekiel is handed a scroll written inside and out with “lamentations, and mourning, and woe”, told to eat it, and finds it “as honey for sweetness”. Taking a text into the body is how the message is received. (A vision, not a dream.)

Ezekiel 2:9–3:3 (King James Version)

Christian scripture Myth & scripture

In Revelation John is told to take a little book from an angel’s hand and eat it: sweet as honey in the mouth, bitter in the belly. The same book is both. (A vision, not a dream.)

Revelation 10:9–10 (King James Version)

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