DREAM GALAXY

Research case · Death & the departed

Unearth the Great Sphinx

Giza, Egypt · c. 1401 BCE

the dream in which Thûtmosis IV., while still a royal prince, received from Phrâ-Harmakhis orders to unearth the Great Sphinx

Original text — History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. II (McClure trans.), Gaston Maspero; trans. M. L. McClure

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Source
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. II (McClure trans.) — Gaston Maspero; trans. M. L. McClure, 1903–06. Vol. II, ch. I, note
Rights
Public domain (US)
Record type
Research case
Place
Giza, Egypt · Egyptian
Date
c. 1401 BCE
Uncertainty
Moderate — Summarised by the Egyptologist Gaston Maspero from Egyptian royal inscriptions (McClure trans., 1903–06).
Imagery
Ruler · Sun · Grave
Feelings
Awe

Another way to look at this dream

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

Sun

Was the sun rising, setting, or overhead? Was its light comforting or too strong?

Jung · Consciousness

In the alchemical pairing Jung used, the sun stands for consciousness — the clear daylight view, with its own blind spots.

C. G. Jung, “Mysterium Coniunctionis”, Collected Works 14

Hebrew Bible Myth & scripture

Joseph dreams that the sun, the moon and eleven stars bow down to him; his family hears it as a claim to rank, and resents it.

Genesis 37:9–10

Chinese historiography Classical text

The Records of the Grand Historian say that Emperor Wu’s mother dreamed of the sun entering her bosom — one of many “birth dreams” that later histories attached to rulers.

Sima Qian, Shiji, “Hereditary Houses of the Consorts”

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The dead

Who was it, and did they seem to know they had died? Was there something you were able to say, or not able to?

Jung · Objective level first

Jung’s memoir records his own dreams of his late father and treats them with seriousness rather than symbol-hunting: a dream of someone who has died is first about that person and that bond.

C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962)

Early dream research Dream research

Ellis devoted a chapter to dreams of the dead, noting how often the dead appear as if alive and how such dreams can bring comfort.

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

Homeric epic Classical text

Achilles dreams of the dead Patroclus, who asks to be buried; Achilles reaches out to embrace him and grasps nothing.

Homer, Iliad XXIII

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

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