DREAM GALAXY

Research case · Cities & buildings

A Crutch in the Library

Not stated · Date unknown · contemporary study

I was thinking about there was like a test and there was a guy on crutches I think, or one crutch. We were in the library and I was really thinking about how I CAN remember what I'm thinking; its just that my mind keeps changing its mind a lot. And that's why I'm thinking about a guy on a crutch in the library. He said he was [first and last name] actually. But there wasn't a [inadudible] at the library; it was like a [inaudible]. We were at the studio lab. That's all.

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 223
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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.
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Exam

Another way to look at this dream

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

Exam

Is it an exam you already passed long ago? What, right now, feels like being tested?

Jung · Compensation

Read through Jung’s idea of compensation, an exam dream may bring up a worry the waking mind is keeping quiet — or an old confidence it has forgotten.

C. G. Jung, “General Aspects of Dream Psychology”, Collected Works 8

Psychoanalysis Depth psychology

Freud noted that people tend to dream of exams they actually passed, and read such dreams as reassurance: “you got through it then”.

Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), “typical dreams”

Modern dream surveys Dream research

In questionnaire studies of “typical dreams”, school, teachers and studying are reported by a large share of respondents.

Nielsen et al., “Typical Dreams of Canadian University Students”, Dreaming (2003)

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

Dreams that share its images