DREAM  作夢

IMAGINE WHILE SLEEPING.
REM SLEEPNIGHTMAREVISIONFANTASYHALLUCINATIONDAYDREAMREVERIETRANCEDAZESTUPORHAZE
Hypernym
  • IMAGINATIONTHINK so as to HAVE OR PRODUCE a PICTURE in one's MIND of an ABSENT OBJECT OR SITUATION.
    • THINKACT USING ONLY the MIND.
      • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
        • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION....
See also
  • SLEEPREST INTENSELY so as to LACK AWARENESS.
    Hyponym
    • NIGHTMARE　DREAM which CAUSES THE DREAMER TO BECOME INTENSELY FRIGHTENED.
      Old Chinese Criteria
      1. The current standard word for a dream is mèng 夢.

      2. Xiōng mèng 凶夢 refers to a nightmare.

      ZHOULI 3 占夢：掌其歲時，觀天地之會，辨陰陽之氣。以日月星辰占六夢之吉凶，一曰正夢，二曰噩夢，三曰思夢，四曰寤夢，五曰喜夢，六曰懼夢。季冬，聘王夢，獻吉夢于王，王拜而受之。乃舍萌于四方，以贈惡夢，遂令始難驅疫。

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      作夢

      做夢

      夢想

      夢幻

      夢鄉

      夢境

      夢

      魘

      睡夢

      夢寐

      噩夢

      惡夢

      美夢

      夢魘

      夢囈

      白日做夢 refers to daydreaming.

      做白日夢 refers to daydreaming.

      南柯一夢 refers to a fond dream.

      rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

      Old Chinese Contrasts
      The KEY IDEA of perceiving things that are not real as if they were real during sleep is not alien to animals. Mammals like dogs do dream, and they even seem to have nightmares. Dogs must be able to distinguish between the dreamt and the real.

      For the cultural interpretation dream in "primitive" cultures LINCOLN 1935 (REPRINT 1971) remains a useful point of departure.

      LANGIUS 1631 summarises Graeco-Roman doxography on the matter.

      ZEDLER's article TRAUMDEUTUNG and especially the extensive TRAUM provide splendid inspiration for comparative study.

      For the Chinese case, BROWN 1988 remains the best guide with useful bibliographies. But note in particular the monograph SANTANGELO 1988. Wolfram Eberhard has a piece on the folklore of Chinese dreaming which I cannot seem to retrieve for the moment. For Ming dynasty Chinese dream literature, oneirography, see LACKNER 1985 as well as Eggert 1993.

      • Psycho-Sinology. The Universe of Dreams in Chinese Culture ( BROWN 1988) p.

      • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.62

      • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

        DREAM

        somnium is the general prosaic word for a dream.

        insomnium is a poetic word for a dream.

      • Rede vom Traum: Traumauffassungen der Literatenschicht im spaeten kaiserlichen China ( EGGERT 1993) p.

      • Der chinesische Traumwald ( LACKNER 1984) p.

      • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

        SOMNUS

      • The Dream in Primitive Cultures ( LINCOLN 1935) p.

      • Tolkovo-kombinatornyj slovar' sovremmenogo russkogo jazyka. Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary of Modern Russian ( Mel'cuk 1984) p. 761

      • The Interpretation of Dreams in Ancient China Chinathemen ( ONG 1985) p.

      • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.285

      • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 10.1461

        TRAUM

      • Il sogno in Cina. L'immaginario colletivo attraverso la narrativa Ming e Qing ( Santangelo 1998) p.

      • "Sachwoerterbuch zum Alten China" ( UNGER SACH) p.

        TRAEUME

      • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 88ff

      • The Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( BORCHERT 2005) p.

      • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

        DREAM, VISIONS

      • Ästhetische Grundbegriffe ( BARCK 2010) p. 6.171

      • Democritus Ridens ( WEBER 1857) p. 5.357

      • New Dictiornary of the History of Ideas, 6 vols. ( HOROWITZ 2005) p.

      • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography ( ROBERTS 1998) p. 249

      Words

      夢  mèng OC: mɯŋs MC: muŋ 29 AttributionsWD

      The current standard word for a dream is mèng 夢.

        Syntactic words
      • nabeventdream
      • nadV(see or speak etc) in a dream
      • vihave a dreamDS
      • vt+V[0]dream that one V-s
      • vtoNdream about
      • vtoSdream that S
      夢見  mèng jiàn OC: mɯŋs keens MC: muŋ ken 4 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • VPtoNresultativedream so as to see> dream of
      眯  mǐ OC: miiʔ MC: mei 2 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • nabeventnightmare
      • vihave nightmaresCH
      凶夢  xiōng mèng OC: qhoŋ mɯŋs MC: hi̯oŋ muŋ 1 AttributionWD

      Xiōng mèng 凶夢 refers to a nightmare.

        Syntactic words
      • NPnightmare
      寤夢  wù mèng OC: ŋaas mɯŋs MC: ŋuo̝ muŋ 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPdreams just as one is waking up (See HYDCD sub verbo, with Sun Yirang's comment on the matter)

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