1^st

True Controller

2^nd

Long-Willow Method

3^rd

Day and Night

4^th

Various Forms of Divination

5^th

the Disciple of Emptiness

6^th

the Sage

7^th

Six Types of Dreams

8^th

Antient Methods of Interpretation

9^th

Auspicious Events

10^th

Influences and Abnormal Conditions

1^st

Heaven

2^nd

Sun & Moon

3^rd

Thundre & Rain

4^th

Mountains & Rivers

5^th

Forms & Appearances

6^th

Food & Clothing

7^th

Utensils & Things

8^th

Valuables & Goods

9^th

Brush & Ink

10^th

Written Graphs

11^th

Official Examinations

12^th

Gods & Strange Things

13^th

Longevity & Destiny

14^th

The Fen & Other Birds

15^th

Beasts

16^th

Dragons & Snakes

17^th

Turtles & Fishes

18^th

Plants & trees

19^th

Reward & Retribution

20^th

General Analogies

p. 2 definition of ‘dream’ in Mo-zi Jian-su (ZZJC 4:193)

facing "Contents" page

"A dream is that which is taken to be real when asleep."

"Dreams are true while the last." (Havelock Ellis)

p.

source

quotation

4

quotation from Wei dynasty dream-interpreter Z^ou Xuan, in :- Xin-ji Z^ou-gon Jie-men-s^u ("New Version" of Mt. Z^ou’s Manual for Interpreting Dreams)

dreaming of __ clothes

is [prognosis of] __

wearing new

illness

doffing

dispute

wearing blue

becoming an official

wearing yellow

great happiness

green

wife will become praegnant

white

very auspicious

10

Z^uan-zi ICS 2/7/21 (transl. in WW, p. 24)

text

comparative

"Zhuang Zhou dreamt he was a butterfly".

p. 39, n. 25 "among the Burmese, the soul that leaves the body and wanders during sleep is called the "butterfly.""

Z^uan-zi ICS 2/7/1-4 (transl. in WW, pp. 22-3)

text

comparative

"ultimate enlightenment is like "a great awakenment when we know that this is all a great dream,"

a conceit that later was also widely disseminated by Buddhism."

Z^uan-zi

text

comparative

"the perfected gentleman ... (zhenren) ... no longer dreams at all".

{the Buddha rarely even slept.}

Wan Yan-s^ou : Men-fu (‘Dream-Rhapsody’)

incantations to exorcise a nightmare (translated in NP)

11

Huan-di Nei-jin (Yellow Emperor’s Medicine-Canon) 17:51-52 (transl. in YECM, p. 66)

dreams of __

are caused by excess of __

"fearfully crossing a large body of water"

yin

"flames or fire"

yan

12

6 types of men (‘dreams’), according to the Z^ou-li Z^u-s^u 25

1^st

z^en (‘normal’)

2^nd

e (frightening nightmares)

3^rd

si (about ‘thoughts’)

4^th

wu (about ‘statements’)

5^th

xi (‘happy’)

6^th

ju (‘fearful’)

10 types of dreams, according to Wan-fu (c. 90-165 Chr.E.) : Qian-fu-lun Z^u-zi Suo-yin (‘Discussions of a Gentleman in Hiding’) ICS 28/52/14 (translated in AHE, p. 119)

1^st

z^i (‘correspondences’, i.e. praedictive)

2^nd

xian (‘symbolic’) to be interpreted

3^rd

jin (‘fixation’) recurrent thoughts

4^th

xian (‘imaginative’)

5^th

ren (‘status’) of social ro^le

6^th

gan (‘stimuli’) from weather

7^th

s^i (‘seasonal’) about crops

8^th

fan (‘contrary’) where meaning is reversed

9^th

bin (‘illness’) caused by sickness

10^th

xin (one’s ‘nature’) one’s praeferences

15

Lie-tzi Z^u-zi Suo-yin ICS 2/6/15-2/7/2, 3/16/10-3/17/10, 3/19/6-15

dreams by Huan-di (‘Yellow Emperor’) & by king Mu (c. 956-918 B.Chr.E.) of the Z^ou, each touring heaven in the company of a wizard (transl. in BL, pp. 33-5, 61-4, 69-70)

16

souls’ wanderings during dreams -- EDS, pp. 287-9, 387

"the wandering of the hun-soul together with gods, transcendents, and perfected gentlemen.

... the hitherto sedentary po-soul could also roam ... encounter demons and engage in sexual activities".

17

DHs-Ts

"Emperor Zhenzong of the Northern Song ... (r. 998-1022) received sacred texts from the Supreme Jade Emperor ... (Yuhuang shangdi)."

MTSD

"Zhu Yuanzhang ... (1328-1398), the future Emperor Taizu of the Ming ..., dreamt of encountering Daoist gods in the course of establishing the dynasty and recorded the experience himself."

after __

we dream of __

"we have talked about anomalies,

... ghost, spirits, and demons"

"we have seen terraces and pavilions,

imperial watchtowers and palaces"

"having stepped on eggplants by mistake"

"Annihilating toads"

"having done the good deed of burying skeletons"

"encountering a woman"

Jean-Pierre Dre`ge : "Notes d’Onirologie Chinoise", in BULLETIN DE L’E’COLE FRANC,AISE D’EXTRE^ME-ORIENT LXX (1981), pp. 271-89;

"Clefs des Songes de Touen-houang", in Michel Soymie` (ed.) : Nouvelles Contributions aux E’tudes des Touen-houang. Geneva, 1981. pp. 205-49.

Chinese lucid dream

Korean lucid dream

Hellenic l. d.

p. 51

[author’s lucid dream, involving mention by dreamer to another dream-person, during dream, of the fact of this as dream :] "I dreamt that an old man with white bushy eyebrows ... bestowed a set of volumes whose golden writing dazzled my eyes. ... I politely asked the old man, "Isn’t our encounter, sir, ... a dream?" The old man laughed and replied, "... what dream isn’t real?" Suddenly, he emitted a sharp cry, and I was startled awake. ... What kind of auspicious omen was this?"

{"I stopped on the peak of the Gumgang mountains ... and fell into a deep sleep. In a dream, a spiritual guide in celestial raiment appeared and instructed me, saying : ‘Why are you asleep ...?’ " (SHWS, p. 80 -- quoting, in translation, chapter 5 of Su-un : Dialogue between the Old and the Young in a Dream.)}

{in the Iliad, a dream-deity is able to inform dreaming subject of fact of this being a dream}

p. 52

"Worthless gentlemen who have withdrawn from the world may find this ... an aid to their jokes". {Daoist recluses characteristically like to joke.}

{The same "spiritual guide" said : "I am a Daoist immortal." (SHWS, p. 81)}

{would this imply likewise that the Iliad is a joke? (satire)}