Learn dream reading
A dream is neither a prophecy nor nonsense. These articles run from sleep science through psychology to the Chinese tradition of dream divination, to help you read a dream on firmer ground.
Beginner articles
Why we dream: what sleep science says
Where dreams come from: REM sleep, memory sorting and emotion, and the main scientific accounts, including activation-synthesis, threat simulation and the continuity hypothesis.
Read the article →Freud and Jung: two ways of reading a dream
Freud's manifest and latent content and the work of condensation and displacement, Jung's compensation, archetypes and amplification, and what a modern reader can borrow from each and what to put down.
Read the article →Is the Duke of Zhou's dream book reliable? Starting from the six dreams of the Rites of Zhou
Where the Duke of Zhou's dream interpretation comes from: the dream officer and the six kinds of dream in the Rites of Zhou, the Dunhuang dream books, and how to take sayings of the form "dream of this, it means that".
Read the article →Common dreams: being chased, falling, exams, losing teeth, and what is going on
The most common kinds of dream: being chased, falling, being late for an exam, losing teeth, flying, going out naked, being unable to run; the usual associations for each and how to read your own.
Read the article →What to do about repeated nightmares: bad dreams, recurring dreams and sleep
Common causes of nightmares, what a recurring dream may mean, imagery rehearsal and other methods with scientific support, and when to see a doctor.
Read the article →How to remember your dreams: a beginner's dream journal
How to keep a dream journal: pen and paper by the bed, lie still and recall first on waking, write the feeling before the plot, use the present tense, look back from time to time, and make reading dreams a habit of knowing yourself.
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Dream reading
Tell her last night's dream and she goes through its pictures one by one with you. No dream dictionary, no verdict.
Tell a dream