○ A mirror of the mind Read less as luck and more as a mirror of how you are now
A wish to sort your thoughts, or to express yourself.
Category: Actions & events (how to read this category)
Psychology
Writing dreams show a wish to sort out thoughts and give them shape for someone else. Fluent writing or blocked words show how settled your thinking is; whether it was a letter or a diary adds meaning.
Folklore and history
In Japan, writing wishes on Tanabata paper strips and copying sutras as devotion tie writing to prayer. Belief in kotodama, the power in words, held that written words could move reality.
A guide-light baton for signaling between group members inside a ruin, or for fixing to a car hood with its magnet to light the surroundings — its specialty is signaling with a flashing light.
Mizukei Multi Guide Light Baton 'Yutosei' 23cm 2013001
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This site's view
In this site's view, could you read what you wrote? Clear letters mean your message is ready; words that blurred or vanished suggest doubt about voicing it. A letter with no address means you are still seeking who should receive it.
Going deeper: our reading
Handwriting changes with your mood and health even when the words are the same: hurried strokes when rushed, careful ones when calm. In this site's reading, what you wrote with, and how, shows the texture of your feelings. Writing slowly with a brush or fountain pen suggests a time to shape important thoughts patiently. Writing and erasing again and again in pencil points to feelings you have not yet found words for. This is our speculation, but writing on a blackboard or large sheet for others may express a wish for your ideas to be understood and accepted. Writing secretly in a private diary means you first want to face yourself. If you were writing a letter to someone, jot down a line of what you want to tell them after waking.
What to do on waking
Spend five minutes before bed writing whatever is on your mind; a private note helps you sort your heart.
In this scene
- ◎Good It works out, you escape: you can overcome a real challenge (good)
- ▲Warn It fails, you are caught: feeling cornered — rest or ask for help (warning)
- Doing it again and again: an unsolved problem is still on your mind
- It felt good: the lucky reading gets stronger
- ▲Warn It felt frightening or painful: the warning reading gets stronger — rest first
- The same dream again and again: something your mind has not settled yet
A collection of true stories about stigmatized properties where people, not ghosts, are the scary part, by Teru Oshima, who runs the stigmatized-property information site — a reference for our stigmatized-property articles.
Oshima Teru's Ghost Story Room: Truly Scary Stigmatized Properties (Teru Oshima / Saizusha)
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FAQ
Q. Is dreaming of writing a good or bad sign?
A. Read less as luck and more as a mirror of how you are now. A wish to sort your thoughts, or to express yourself.
Q. Why do I keep dreaming of writing?
A. A recurring dream usually points to something your mind has not settled yet. Research suggests such dreams tend to stop once the underlying worry is resolved. Keeping a dream diary helps you notice what triggers it.
Q. What should I do after dreaming of writing?
A. Spend five minutes before bed writing whatever is on your mind; a private note helps you sort your heart.
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More dreams in "Actions & events"
- Waiting
- Forgetting Something
- Stealing
- Being Robbed
- Praying
- Shouting
- Drawing
- Taking a Photo
- A Game
- Sports
- Winning
- Losing
※ Dream interpretation here is entertainment drawing on psychology and folklore — it is not scientifically proven. "This site's view" is our own interpretation.
