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Leaving the Kitchen During an Alarm

Not stated · Date unknown · contemporary study

Oh I remember. I remember feeling a little bit angry. I remember I was in the hall, and I was trying to make something in the kitchen, and I think the fire alarm went off and then my RA came in, and he wanted us to go out...out... to move out. And I was feeling kind of angry. I don't know it was kind of like the short dream I was kind of having. And I was feeling angry going out, and then I was explaining to him that I couldn't go out because I was making some food in the kitchen. And then he kept insisting that I had to leave because the fire alarm had been set off so I had to leave. And I just like still left, I just decided to leave. But I remember feeling angry in that short dream. I'm done.

Original text — Zhang & Wamsley 2019 dream EEG reports — krank curated text-only release v1, Jing Zhang and Erin J. Wamsley (research); Erin Wamsley, Jing Zhang and Megan Collins (archive); Remington Mallett / krank (text curation)

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Zhang & Wamsley 2019 dream EEG reports — krank curated text-only release v1 — Jing Zhang and Erin J. Wamsley (research); Erin Wamsley, Jing Zhang and Megan Collins (archive); Remington Mallett / krank (text curation), 2019 study; 2025 curated release. Curated text-only release, de-identified report 015
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Record type
Research case
Place
Not stated · American
Date
Date unknown · contemporary study
Uncertainty
Moderate — De-identified sleep-mentation report; the source does not establish a calendar dream date. Chinese title and translation are AI-generated editorial drafts, not human-verified.
Imagery
Fire · Food
Feelings
Calm

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

Fire

Was the fire warming, destroying, or lighting the way? What, if anything, did it burn?

Jung · Transformation by fire

In the alchemical images Jung studied, fire is the agent of change: what passes through it does not come out the same.

C. G. Jung, “Psychology and Alchemy”, Collected Works 12

Classical Chinese medicine Historical medicine

The Lingshu’s counterpart to the water image: when yang is excessive, “one dreams of a great fire, burning and scorching”. This is a historical theory about the body, not medical advice and not a way to diagnose anything.

Huangdi Neijing, Lingshu ch. 43 “Yinxie Fameng”

Greek myth Myth & scripture

Prometheus steals fire for humans and is punished for it: fire as a gift that costs something.

Hesiod, Theogony; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

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

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