DREAM GALAXY

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Ordering a Sandwich at the Counter

Not stated · Date unknown · contemporary study

I was ordering some food at some resturant I guess, more of a like Subway kind of a deal. Uh... it was a sandwich, I saw...it was like a glass counter and the person who was taking my order was wearing black, all black, uh...um... I was...I was pretty excited about it. And that's it.

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 206
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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
Food · Train

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

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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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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