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Someone Needs to Finish This[edit]

This was last updated in January and it still has placefillers.

I don't know enough about dream interpretations to finish it, I was actually looking for this information, so if any kind soul will be a fine gentle(wo)man and do your civic duty, the world will be a better place.

The way forward, and Oneiromancy[edit]

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)[reply]

I am speaking to you from the future; can you hear me past? It looks like this page doesn't get a lot of visitors. It seems the article "dream interpretation" was merged into "oneiromancy", which strikes me as a little backwards. Most pages reach here through a redirect (the few that don't are your and my user pages, some pages on magic, and i before e except after c); dream interpretation is the most popular redirect, and unless there are protests, I'm going to move this page there in a week or so. --Mgreenbe 17:15, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Requested Move[edit]

Talk:Oneiromancy — Oneiromancy → Dream interpretation – Oneiromancy is one form of dream interpretation; most pages reach oneiromancy through a link to dream interpretation. --Mgreenbe 16:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Closed. Manually merging contemporary material into the latter page. --Mgreenbe 10:15, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would you believe I came back to change my vote and say exactly that? Actually it looks pretty straightforward by the light of day. AvB ÷ talk 13:41, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's not what you meant? Wait, let me move all that stuff back... :) --Mgreenbe 16:10, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Result looks good to me. This is a compliment. ;-) AvB ÷ talk 22:00, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Voting[edit]

Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~~~~

Support. Oneiromancy is a more specific term, and doesn't merit its own page — for now, at least. --Mgreenbe 16:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I performed the original merge. I believe this was a mistake. The pages should be separate, but oneiromancy deserves its own page. freestylefrappe 18:45, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose -- Dream interpretation is a superset of e.g. Oneiromancy and various forms of (psychological) dream interpretation. Oneiromancy assumes supernatural input into the dream process and/or the interpretation process: the dream is used to predict the future (Wordsmith). Freud combined information gathered from dreams with a set of symbols in order to explain the person's past and present feelings and behavior. Others try to activate dreamers to discover possible hidden meanings in their own dreams. AvB ÷ talk 23:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Add any additional comments

Anyone awake, or all you all dreaming? --Mgreenbe 16:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm here, not sure about anyone else. Anyway, unlike you, I would say your position means Oneiromancy can have its own article until someone creates a general Dream interpretation article. To me that would be the right time to merge Oneiromancy into Dream interpretation... AvB ÷ talk 23:19, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure I understand the comment. Are you saying that contemporary theories of dreaming are in fact oneiromancy and all is right with the world? Or are you saying that WP:RM is too heavy-handed and I should cut the modern stuff and paste over the redirect? --Mgreenbe 23:59, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(1) you say oneiromancy is a special case of dream interpretation, I say the same thing (2) You want to move (for now), I want to keep things as they are (for now). (3) I Try to convince you that the special case cannot be moved to the main class unless the main class explains about itself being a main class and oneiromancy as a special case

Or perhaps I should just demonstrate what I mean - or try again tomorrow after a good dream or so (it's late here). AvB ÷ talk 00:20, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Right, okay, I agree entirely. It's late here too (2:51am here in Haifa), so whoever gets to it tomorrow first...wins? --Mgreenbe 00:53, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Meaning[edit]

Grammatically, wouldn't Oneiromancy literally be the manipulation or controlling of dreams, not the interpretation of such? 68.102.179.135 08:03, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge of Oneirocritic literature[edit]

The article on Oneirocritic literature seems to overlap with this one. Neither article is overlong. They might do better together as a single article. What do we think? --DanielRigal (talk) 21:53, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It has since been merged with Dream dictionary. -- Beland (talk) 17:55, 10 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

link rot[edit]

The Heessel link doesn't work. 71.163.117.143 (talk) 14:39, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relates to Restructure of Main article "Dream"[edit]

In an ongoing restructure of Wikipedia's Dream article, some detail content currently there will be moved here, and this Oneiromancy article will be highlighted there for readers seeking details. Canhelp (talk) 15:30, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]