Talk:Dream interpretation/Archive 1

message: Questions:
#This article has various "to be written" parts. Isn't this against Wikipedia policy?
#This article covers—or tries to cover—both psychological dream interpretation and mantic or spiritual methods. I look at Oneiromancy and wonder if maybe we should consider the articles together.
:*We could combine the article, presumable into "Dream interpretation," which would cover both topics.
:*We could separate the topics; everything "magical," "mantic" or "spiritual" would go to Oneiromancy (with a suitable in-article reference). "Dream interpretation" would only cover psychological theories.
What do people think? Lectiodifficilior 03:35, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The way forward, and [[Oneiromancy]]

message: I've merged in applicable material from oneiromancy and archived the talk page.  A fresh beginning! --Mgreenbe 10:50, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: I am asking permission to add a link to my dream interpretation site as I feel it is relevent and useful to this subject. I also wanted to add a link to the Dream Dictionary page as the dictionary on my site is an unusual one and helps readers come up with their own definitions.
www.easy-dream-interpretation.com
www.easy-dream-interpretation.com/dreamdictionary.html
Thanks for your consideration,
Krista O'Connor Kristao 14:35, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Krista, as far as I can tell, your site isn't based on a particualy widely accepted methdology, isn't well known in dream interpretation circles and hasn't been mentioned by many (or any even?) siginficant publications.  Our external links guidelines are not the most easy to follow but they do make it clear that external links need to be more than just relevent and useful, they need to add encyclopedic value.  Your site seems to be more about people having a go at dream interpretation without making it clear what theory they are following, than about applying rigorous academic thought to dream interpretation.  It doesn't seem to meet the level required to be included in an encyclopedia. --Siobhan Hansa 17:09, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dream Interpretation site

message: This was posted on the article by User:JASpencer but it seemed more like a request to editors than and encyclopedic addition so I'cve moved it here.
This article has a corresponding article from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05154a.htm that could be used as a source in this article, but with caution, as it may be out of date, or may reflect the point of view of the Catholic Church as of 1913.
:Category:Articles that could be expanded from the Catholic Encyclopedia 
-- Siobhan Hansa 05:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In my opinion this seems like a fair synopsis of most Christian views towards Dream Interpretation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05154a.htm JASpencer 11:41, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catholic encyclopedia article 

message: This peice is just an add and has nothing to do with dreams as a concept, i there for remove it totaly ¨¨Morten Svendsen¨¨ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.212.94.183 (talk) 06:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  harmony 

message: Two links:
* unclesirbobby.org.uk/dreamessay.php "Research articles on various dream symbols"
and
* http://www.dreamsymbols.org/  "Dr. Flöttmann's Scientific Encyclopedia of Dream Symbols"
Have been added a couple of times.  These don't appear to be appropriate.  
The first seems to be a self published site with no clear provenance. Other than the domain names registration details it seems to be anonymous.  And the second while it has some of the trappings of authority (it's published by the Wilhelm-Griesinger-Institut and is at least not anonymous) still doesn't seem to be significant.  There are thousands dream theorists around and including them when they do not already have a significant reputation is against our core policies.  It's possible I've missed something in my research and Flöttmann is in fact significant, in which case I really think we need to put his work in context by including well sourced content in the article itself - not simply a link in the external links section.  -- SiobhanHansa 09:58, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The unclesirbobby link was re added by the site's owner (see:  and ) and I have removed it again.  Editors are specifically asked not to add links to sites they are involved with directly to the article (see our guidelines).  Please gain consensus on this talk page before re-adding it. -- SiobhanHansa 18:03, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent external link additions 

message: I think its a grand idea. there is info at [contemporary dream interpretation]] that isn't here.Majicshrink (talk) 21:14, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, merge the two. they have much in common. AdvarkOfUni (talk) 03:47, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 08 contemp theory into dream interp.  

message: (also posted on the dream wikipedia discussion page)
Question: How can a dream interpretation or dream analysis web page get added as an outside link to wikipedia?  Is that legit?
Here's the site I've been working on
[]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.101.2.253 (talk) 12:46, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dreams or Dream Interpretation Links 

message: The following quote of Freud is very odd:
: You entirely disregard the apparent connections between the elements in the  manifest dream and collect the ideas that occur to you in connection with each separate element of the dream by free association according to the psychoanalytic rule of procedure. From this material you arrive at the latent dream-thoughts, just as you arrived at the patient's hidden complexes from his associations to his symptoms and memories...The true meaning of the dream, which has now replaced the manifest content, is always clearly intelligible.
In German there is no correspondent to "you" in the sense of "one", and in
the context given it is highly unlikely that a German, be it in his native
language or when writing English, would have used a formulation like this.
I note that even English standard use in Freud's days would have ruled the
use of "you" out (and even today there are many who consider it a sign of incompetence and a source of unnecessary ambiguity). A German text would
have used a construct based on "I", "we", "one", or similar, but not "you".
Obviously, any translation into English should reflect this; obviously, most
highly educated Germans (and Austrians) in the early twentieth century would
have kept to the same conventions when writing in English.
Because no source is given (bad author!), I cannot do more than speculate,
but I very, very strongly encourage you to verify this quote, replace it,
or remove it entirely.
94.220.249.30 (talk) 05:52, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You are a complete fucking idiot. The quote is word-for-word from the official translation of the Standard Edition of Freud's writings. See the Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1909); Lecture Three. Moron. Pfistermeister (talk) 15:50, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odd quotes/translations 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Dream interpretation's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Lutz":
From Psychology in medieval Islam: 
From Avicenna: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 23:07, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Dream interpretation]] 

message: This article has been edited by a user who is known to have misused sources to unduly promote certain views (see WP:Jagged 85 cleanup). Examination of the sources used by this editor often reveals that the sources have been selectively interpreted or blatantly misrepresented, going beyond any reasonable interpretation of the authors' intent.
Please help by viewing the entry for this article shown at the cleanup page, and check the edits to ensure that any claims are valid, and that any references do in fact verify what is claimed. Tobby72 (talk) 19:11, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misuse of sources 

message: This says there are at least 12 major schools of dream interpretation.  It might be nice to have an organized overview on this page.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:22, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schools of interpretation 

message: This section was tagged "citation needed" since 2010.  It discussed unpublished research, which cannot be verified or cited, violating "No original research."  Also may not meet notability requirements.  If you can cite sources, feel free to add it back. Oanjao (talk) 05:56, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete section "Characteristics of dream interpreters" 

message: I added dreamdoze.com as under "External Links" and it got promptly removed as "Spam".
If someone would please explain to me how an active collaborative community of people who share and interpret each others dreams for fun and for exchange of knowledge - how is this considered spam - then I will be fine with the removal.
Dear editors, if you remove this external link, please explain to me how this is spam and not a valuable contribution. Wikipedia is full of refers linking to social communities of all kinds.
Thank you.
PS - I wrote this on the Talk page of user Jeraphine Gryphon asking him/her why they had deleted the link as spam - and instead they deleted my question.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kweiskopf (talk • contribs) 21:55, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed per WP:EL - Wikipedia is not a directory service. --Ckatzchatspy 09:12, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  DreamDoze is not spam 

message: I had sex with someone I had sex with when I was young,after we had sex he died.I have not seen him in about 12 years what does it mean  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.178.18.172 (talk) 17:35, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  sex dream 

message: Found it a little odd that in the history of dream interpretation there is no mention of Joseph interpreting dreams - first for the royal cup-bearer and baker, then for Pharaoh.
Scodish (talk) 11:03, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joseph in the Bible 

message: Found it a little odd that in the history of dream interpretation there is no mention of Joseph interpreting dreams - first for the royal cup-bearer and baker, then for Pharaoh.
Scodish (talk) 11:03, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joseph in the Bible 

message: I was standing on a planet near a structure looking in to space. At first I just seen one moon in the last quarter then I noticed another then another. Three in all to my upper left then five to my lower right. I lifted my camera to take pictures this is when it came into view. I seen a large blueish triangled shape in their orbit then I seen a ship in orbit as I zoomed my camer and continuied taking pictures I seen schematics on the side of the ship. I couldnt read them but I remember part of one line of them. It was mostley lines and emblems. I was aware of my flash from my camera and It had attrackted to beings. They approched me on seperate rolling vehicles. I waved and they walked up to me. They looked like u and I. They spoke but I couldn't understand they coul understand me though. They used a device to scan my body sominthin similar to a metal detector but not. It had and electrical charge coming from it. As he checked my knee he stopped and I reconnised his words uranium and Iraq.he had found traces of it in my knee. I went on to tell him I had been there and i must have picked it up through patrol while taking a knee.I asked if he had ever been there and he shook his head yes. I told them that we hadnt figured out intersteller travel yet. I believe that was the schematics on the side of the ship but I cant remember them except fpr the emblem of the last quarter of the moon shape and a straight line following it. The planet I did not see just what I described above. Any thoughts on this dream? Xxrazorrainxx (talk) 10:48, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  intersteller travel 

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