Dreams in Taiping Guangji, dream volumes 276–282 — Li Fang et al. (compilers)

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Read the source: Taiping Guangji, dream volumes 276–282
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Rights note: Song dynasty compendium; Wikisource transcription with editorial emendations.

Dream records from this source

Three black dogs howling c. 475 BCE (as told)
The great fish with a hook in its mouth c. 120 BCE (as told)
A melon sweeter than any c. 60 CE (as told)
A knife opened his heart, and he could learn c. 150 (as told)
A stranger asked to swap heads 4th century (Jin)
Ten men in black begging for their lives 4th century (Jin)
A thorn in her eye 4th century
Four people in black asked to live 4th century (Jin)
A long green dog from the south 376 (as told)
Riding a green dragon up to heaven late 4th century (as told)
The whole city sprouting vegetables 383 (as told)
Move me to high, dry ground late 4th century
Two boats joined, rising to heaven c. 400
My late husband came back to mend the house 5th century
Two boys said: move your bed c. 480 (Southern Qi)
The sun fell into the water c. 500 (Northern Wei)
A melon in winter, still in his hand c. 500 (Northern Wei)
The five-coloured brush taken back c. 500 (Liang)
My heart’s spirit resigned c. 560 (Northern Qi)
Fallen from the bed, eaten by worms 617 (as told)
An ox with two tails c. 650 (Tang)
A great purple bird in the courtyard c. 670
A parrot with both wings broken c. 698 (as told)
Two ghosts plotting to enter my father Tang (undated)
She came to say a final goodbye c. 710
Falling from the palace hall c. 750
Carried up out of a well c. 750
Holding the sun on a mountain top c. 760
Cooking rice in a stone mortar c. 800 (Tang)
The general’s buried sword Tang (undated)
Fell in the river, boots still dry c. 810
A willow tree fell to the ground 815
I dreamed I was the fish 837
Driving an ox cart that carried the sun spring 846
The shoe I lost in the dream c. 870
Swallowing a burned book of Go c. 873
Swallowing pearls in the stream c. 880
My wife wrote me a poem in the dream c. 880
Into the water with three knives c. 890
The window with cypress and mallows c. 900
Swallowing the sun c. 920 (Wu kingdom)
The feathered man who opened my heart legendary (Western Zhou)

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