With the Duke of Zhou
Dream Reading
Tell him what came to you in the night, and how you felt on waking. Nobody has heard more dreams.
Tell him my dream
With the Duke of Zhou
Tell him what came to you in the night, and how you felt on waking. Nobody has heard more dreams.
Tell him my dreamFor three thousand years, people in China have woken up and wanted to ask what the night was trying to say. The best-known way of asking carries one name: the Duke of Zhou's book of dreams.
We keep the spirit of that book. A dream is no verdict. It is a picture, usually of something already on your mind, and the old readers found kindness even in the frightening ones.
Your guide
Ji Dan, brother of King Wu, was regent for the young King Cheng some three thousand years ago, and a real statesman of early China. In old age Confucius sighed that he no longer dreamed of him. Chinese speakers still say "off to see the Duke of Zhou" when they mean going to bed.
The dream book under his name was gathered by other hands many centuries later. Here he is the guide in our story.
First
Choose up to three. You need not remember it all. What stayed with you is enough.
Second
He cared about this most. The same dream means something different to someone who wakes easy and to someone who wakes afraid.
Press and hold until the mist lifts