Research case · People & kin
Arguing About the Peace Corps
Not stated · Date unknown · contemporary study
I was thinking about...I was talking to one of my best friends...And she was telling me how she doesn't think I would like survive if I decided to go into the Peace Corp because of the lack of technology. We were arguing. And I would tell her Just because she wouldn't survive doesn't mean I wouldn't. We were going back and forth a lot. We were driving down the street. And there were like mannequins on the sidewalks. With like a balloon head and wire body. But they had on makeup. Their faces were beat man. It was like a really urban area and like the streets were all messed up. It was like, it looked like raggly homes. And we were arguing. And I was really getting mad at her about whether or not...because I...she was saying that... when I was saying something about Peace Corp she knew I wasn't going. And I was like "Why?!" And she's like "Because you could never survive out there without technology" And we got in a big argument. And that is 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 215
- 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
- Friend · City · Faces · House
Another way to look at this dream
Notes on the images in this dream from psychology, myth, folklore and semiotics. Each names its source.
Friend
How long since you last saw this friend? What were you doing together in the dream — something you used to do?
Dream research Dream research
The “continuity” view in dream research finds that most dream characters are people we know, and that dreams tend to carry on our waking relationships and concerns.
G. William Domhoff, The Scientific Study of Dreams (2003)
Tang poetry Literature
Du Fu, not knowing whether his exiled friend Li Bai is alive, writes that “my old friend entered my dream, knowing how long I have thought of him”.
Du Fu, “Dreaming of Li Bai” (759)
City
Do you know this city? Were you looking for a way, hurrying, or lost?
Jung · The centre
In 1927 Jung dreamed of a dark, sooty Liverpool; at its centre was a square with a pool, an island and a single magnolia tree in bloom, lit as if by sunlight. He took it as an image of a centre in the psyche — what he called the Self.
C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962)
Song-dynasty memoir Literature
After Kaifeng fell, Meng Yuanlao wrote down the lost capital street by street and called the book a “dream of splendour”, comparing his memory to the Yellow Emperor waking from his dream of the land of Huaxu.
Meng Yuanlao, Dongjing Meng Hua Lu (1147), preface
Hebrew Bible Myth & scripture
The builders of Babel set out to make a city and a tower reaching heaven, and end scattered, no longer speaking one language.
Genesis 11:1–9
A stranger
Did the stranger remind you of anyone, even slightly? What did they want from you?
Jung · Shadow, anima and animus
Jung read unknown figures as possible parts of the dreamer: a same-sex stranger may carry the shadow; an other-sex figure what he called the anima or animus. These are offered as lenses, not labels — and his gender framing reflects his time.
C. G. Jung, “Aion, ch. 2–3”, Collected Works 9ii
Homeric epic Classical text
In Homer, gods and dreams arrive in borrowed shapes: Athena visits Nausicaa disguised as her friend; Zeus sends a Dream to Agamemnon looking like Nestor.
Odyssey VI; Iliad II
Exploration notes, not a diagnosis, a prediction, or evidence of real events.
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