DREAM GALAXY

Research case · Cities & buildings

Talking with Mother Near Her Workplace

Not stated · Date unknown · contemporary study

Ok um....So I was dreaming about my mother, and I was dreaming about where she work...works, in a hospital in [country] so I was just dreaming about talking to her at her work place and we were um...ummm....yeah we were near a taxi station and uh... there were trees...uh... alongside the walkway, trees usually they....uh....trees with green leaves... And [inaudible words x 5]. Yeah, that's...that's all. I'm finished.

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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Source
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 043
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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
Insects · Mother · Train · Tree · Road

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

Insects

Were the insects many or one, busy or still? Did you feel small among them, or large?

Tang tale Literature

The whole kingdom of “The Governor of Nanke” turns out to be an ants’ nest. Its glory and grief were real to the dreamer, and tiny to the waking eye.

Li Gongzuo, “The Governor of Nanke” (c. 802)

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Mother

Was this your own mother as you know her, or someone in her place? What did she do or say?

Jung · The mother archetype

Jung first reads a dreamed mother on the “objective level” — your real mother and your relationship. Only then on the “subjective level”: the mother archetype, which he described as both nourishing and devouring.

C. G. Jung, “Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype”, Collected Works 9i

Early dream research & psychology Dream research

Family members, friends and strangers populate most dreams. Freud read many such dreams as wishes in disguise; contemporary researchers emphasise continuity with waking relationships and concerns.

Freud, Dream Psychology (1920)

Myth & scripture (several traditions) Myth & scripture

Dreams in epic and scripture are often addressed to someone — a wife waiting for a husband, a son receiving a vision for his family — and are told aloud to be understood.

Odyssey XIX; Genesis 37

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Road

Were you heading towards somewhere or leaving somewhere? Did you choose this road?

Jung · Individuation as a way

Jung often spoke of individuation as a path one has to walk oneself; no one else’s map fits exactly.

C. G. Jung, “Conscious, Unconscious, and Individuation”, Collected Works 9i

Upanishads Classical text

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says that in dream “there are no chariots, no harnesses, no roads — but he creates chariots, harnesses and roads”: the dreamer builds the way as they go.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.3.10

Tang tale Literature

In “The World Inside a Pillow”, a young man on the road to Handan lives a whole career in a dream while millet cooks — the source of the idiom “yellow millet dream”.

Shen Jiji, “The World Inside a Pillow” (c. 780)

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

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