DREAM    作夢

IMAGINE WHILE SLEEPING.
REM SLEEPNIGHTMAREVISIONFANTASYHALLUCINATIONDAYDREAMREVERIETRANCEDAZESTUPORHAZE
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 ／
Hyponym
  • NIGHTMARE　DREAM which CAUSES THE DREAMER TO BECOME INTENSELY FRIGHTENED. (anc: 15/0, child: 0)
See also
  • SLEEPREST INTENSELY so as to LACK AWARENESS.
Hypernym
  • IMAGINATION　THINK so as to HAVE OR PRODUCE a PICTURE in one's MIND of an ABSENT OBJECT OR SITUATION. (anc: 13/0, child: 2)
  • THINK　ACT USING ONLY the MIND. (anc: 12/0, child: 12)
  • ACT　MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
  • 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 (5 items)

    夢  mèng OC: mɯŋs MC: muŋ 29 Attributions

    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 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNresultativedream so as to see> dream of
    眯  mǐ OC: miiʔ MC: mei 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabeventnightmare
    • vihave nightmaresCH
    凶夢  xiōng mèng OC: qhoŋ mɯŋs MC: hi̯oŋ muŋ 1 Attribution

    Xiōng mèng 凶夢 refers to a nightmare.

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