Research case · People & kin
Coins from My Father
Not stated · Date unknown · contemporary study
My dad was showing me some, I think they were quarters, and they were patriotic, it said something about pride in the country and all that, and he was giving them to me, 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 287
- 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
- Father
Another way to look at this dream
Notes on the images in this dream from psychology, myth, folklore and semiotics. Each names its source.
Father
Was this your own father as you know him, or a father-like figure? Was there something unsaid between you?
Jung · Objective and subjective level
Jung suggested reading a dream figure twice: as the actual person, and as part of yourself. A dreamed father may be about him — or about your own sense of authority.
C. G. Jung, “On the Psychology of the Unconscious”, Collected Works 7
Confucian classics Classical text
Confucius, growing old, lamented that he had not dreamed of the Duke of Zhou — his model and spiritual forebear — for a long time.
Analects 7.5
Psychoanalysis Depth psychology
The night after his father’s funeral, Freud dreamed of a notice reading “You are requested to close the eyes” — a dream he connected to duty and self-reproach.
Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), ch. VI
Exploration notes, not a diagnosis, a prediction, or evidence of real events.
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