The sources
What this dream book is built from, who wrote it, and why it may be published.
Zhou Gong
周公解夢 (Zhou Gong Jie Meng)
A Chinese dream book attributed to the Duke of Zhou. Headword and verdict are fused into one line of five to nine characters. Its readings frequently invert the European ones: poverty, a fallen tree, a death in the dream are auspicious.
- Tradition
- Chinese
- Rights
- public domain
- Headwords in the source
- 988
- Of those, on pages
- 920
- Where the text is from
- https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/周公解夢
Jagaddeva
Der Traumschlüssel (Svapnacintāmaṇi) des Jagaddeva
The Sanskrit Svapnacintamani in Julius von Negelein’s critical edition. Catastrophe in the dream is usually the favourable omen — it is systematically inverted against the other sources.
- Tradition
- Indian
- Rights
- public domain
- Headwords in the source
- 91
- Of those, on pages
- 75
- Where the text is from
- https://archive.org/details/von-negelein-der-traumschlussel-des-jagaddeva
Russian dream book, 1787
Сонникъ, или Истолкованiе сновъ
A Russian dream book from 1787, printed in pre-reform Cyrillic. The text keeps the doctrine of the ancient tradition almost intact.
- Tradition
- Russian
- Rights
- public domain
- Headwords in the source
- 331
- Of those, on pages
- 331
- Where the text is from
- https://archive.org/details/sonnikiliistolkovaniesnovvybrannoeizna20
Russian dream book, 1811
Новый, полный и подробный сонникъ
A fuller Russian dream book from 1811. In places it carries Artemidorus’s doctrine verbatim, though it never names him.
- Tradition
- Russian
- Rights
- public domain
- Headwords in the source
- 419
- Of those, on pages
- 419
- Where the text is from
- https://archive.org/details/novyjpolnyjipodrobnyjsonnikoznachajusc28
Freud
Die Traumdeutung, 8. veränderte Auflage
The Interpretation of Dreams is not a dictionary: Freud writes about a few dozen symbols, not ten thousand. He appears here only where he speaks in his own voice — the passages where he reports Scherner and Volkelt do not stand under his name.
- Tradition
- psychoanalytic
- Rights
- public domain
- Headwords in the source
- 6
- Of those, on pages
- 4
- Where the text is from
- https://archive.org/details/freud1930traumdeutung8
Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream
An American dream book, the only one here that knows the telephone, the railroad or the elevator. Doctrinally it is the most degraded: it keeps fragments of the ancient tradition without the system that once held them together.
- Tradition
- American Victorian
- Rights
- public domain
- Headwords in the source
- 2251
- Of those, on pages
- 149
- Where the text is from
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926