DREAM GALAXY

Research case · Transformation

Breaking jars during a reality check

Not stated · Date unknown · contemporary study

The dream was extremely vivid, so much so that at a certain point I began questioning it and realized that it was a dream. I then started moving around the dream environment. I changed the setting a couple of times before returning to the original one, and I performed another reality check when I became uncertain again about whether I was dreaming. I tried to pass a finger through a wall or something similar, but I only ended up breaking jars and walls.

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 L8
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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.
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Stars · Time

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

Stars

One star or a whole sky of them? Were they close, and did they make any shape you recognised?

Chinese historiography Classical text

The “Treatise on the Celestial Offices” in the Records of the Grand Historian maps the night sky onto the human world: groups of stars are named as officials of a heavenly court.

Sima Qian, Shiji, “Treatise on the Celestial Offices”

Roman philosophy Philosophy

Scipio, dreaming among the stars, finds them far larger than they look from Earth — the dream is a lesson in how small human glory is from far enough away.

Cicero, De re publica VI (“Dream of Scipio”)

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Time

Did time in the dream run fast, slow, or stop? Were you late for something, or waiting?

Early dream research Dream research

Ellis devoted part of a chapter to the “apparent rapidity” of dreams and the odd sense of time in them, arguing that a dream often feels long because it is remembered like a described picture.

Havelock Ellis, The World of Dreams (1911), ch. IX

Nineteenth-century case Dream research

Alfred Maury reported dreaming a long drama of the French Revolution ending at the guillotine, and waking as the bed’s headboard fell on his neck. Freud and others debated how so much could fit into a moment.

Alfred Maury, Le Sommeil et les rêves (1861); discussed in Freud (1900), ch. I

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Exploration notes, not a diagnosis, a prediction, or evidence of real events.

Dreams that share its images