Research case · People & kin
A Song and Rolling Shopping Cart
Not stated · Date unknown · contemporary study
OK. Still singing "Cheerleader." Uh....I had something else, something like a rolling shopping cart, but that's gone now. I think that's all.
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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 071
- 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
- Music
- Feelings
- Calm
Another way to look at this dream
Notes on the images in this dream from psychology, myth, folklore and semiotics. Each names its source.
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.)
Exploration notes, not a diagnosis, a prediction, or evidence of real events.
Dreams that share its images
- Baseball, a Song, and a Movie Not stated · Date unknown · contemporary study
- Cultivate and make music Athens, Greece · 399 BCE
- Music Running Through My Head Not stated · Date unknown · contemporary study
- Children Outside Not stated · Date unknown · contemporary study
- An orchestra of birdsong England · before 1911
- The one goddess he never sang Thebes, Greece · c. 438 BCE