DREAM GALAXY

Research case · Nature & weather

Directing an apocalyptic storm

Not stated · Date unknown · contemporary study

Broadly speaking, the dream involved one of my professors as a villain who created an apocalyptic storm that I had to manage by moving my hands and "directing" it to the rhythm of a song playing in the background. Then I wondered what I was doing, and I woke up because of the alarm.

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, Semi-lucid Dream Reports, Report S2.1
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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
Storm · Music
Feelings
Wonder

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

Storm

Was the storm far off or already on top of you? Were you looking for shelter, or standing in it watching?

English drama Literature

The Tempest opens with a storm raised by magic, and Prospero later says: “We are such stuff / As dreams are made on.”

Shakespeare, The Tempest, IV.i

Early dream research Dream research

Ellis recorded his own dream of a cyclone threatening the house, and connected it to the wind outside that night.

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

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Music

Did you know the tune, or was it new? Where was it coming from?

Shakespeare Literature

Caliban tells of the island’s “sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not”, and of dreaming that the clouds opened to show riches, “that, when I wak’d, I cried to dream again”. The music is what he cannot keep.

Shakespeare, The Tempest III.2

Greek philosophy Philosophy

Socrates’ recurring dream said “Cultivate and make music”. Wondering whether it meant music in the ordinary sense, he composed a hymn to Apollo and turned some of Aesop’s fables into verse.

Plato, Phaedo 60c–61b (Jowett trans.)

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

Dreams that share its images