Talk:List of works based on dreams
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 | King's Hand was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 31 August 2022 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into List of works based on dreams. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here. |
 | On 10 November 2021, it was proposed that this article be moved from List of dreams to Works based on dreams. The result of the discussion was moved. |
"I have a dream" ...not "I HAD a dream" edit
As inspiring as Dr. Martin Luther King's story is, the article is about actual dreams that people had during sleep, not visions that they had for the future. These are two different meanings of the word "dream." This entry really doesn't belong here. rowley (talk) 15:51, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Explanations edit
Do you really believe that "divination" deserves to be put first in the section about explanations? The order in which the explanations are present actually matters, as it implies how important they are. And this is Wikipedia, not Biblepedia or Pseudosciencepedia, so "divination" should be last on the list, after scientific explanations. If whoever wrote that part of the article didn't just do this by mistake, it's bordering on NPOV and propaganda, as it pushes the idea that a "divination" is the most probable explanation of all this into the reader's mind. No matter what your opinions are, science is objective and unbiased, unlike belief, and therefore should come first on an encyclopedia like this.89.176.209.84 (talk) 09:48, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
Double Helix structure of DNA edit
Someone disputed a reference in this section, saying "attention:there is no reference in the indicated footnote (#5); this reference number sends to a different entry than the one being claimed; I also checked with the transcript of the 2005 TED conference and at no point does Dr Watson mention the staircase dream as inspiration for the double helix" I am in no position to judge the merit of that dispute, but did add a "disputed-inline" tag to it. Marteau (talk) 05:19, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
Google edit
PageRank came to Larry Page in a dream about downloading the contents of the internet (see introduction to How Google Works) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.49.18.32 (talk) 21:17, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
Revelation edit
Isn't the Book of Revelation inspired by a dream?
Requested move 10 November 2021 edit
- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. Per RM (closed by non-admin page mover) Megan B.... It’s all coming to me till the end of time 13:38, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
List of dreams → Works based on dreams – Apart from the one Titanic prophecy and the one historical invasion of Greece, this is a list of 14 cases of creative or scientific works where inspiration was drawn from a dream. This seems a solid subject for an article and would fit the Category:Works by source articles. The current title "list of dreams" implies a list of common dream subjects. Lord Belbury (talk) 10:27, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support. This is a list of works based on dreams, not a list of dreams as such. JIP | Talk 10:38, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support Without a re-factor this should just be deleted; there are billions of dreams every week. Neither the Pharaoh of Genesis nor Martin Luther King Jr. is listed. However, "published works that are identifiable as being inspired by a dream" can probably be a workable topic. User:力 (powera, π, ν) 20:32, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support. Agree that "List of dreams" makes it sound like a dream dictionary. Renaming it to clarify the subject makes sense. the wub "?!" 00:25, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support per the arguments by nom and Power. ModernDayTrilobite (talk) 15:28, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
- comment I'd be in favor of calling it "List of works based on dreams" or something similar, just to make it clear it's a list article. Yitz (talk) 21:05, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
- Good point. But should it be a list article, or would it work better as prose? The current structure should definitely be grouped into literature/music/science/other rather than scrambled randomly, and it may read better if each of those groupings is written as text, rather than short, discrete subsections. --Lord Belbury (talk) 09:14, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Incompleteness edit
How comprehensive is this article intended to be? The examples are bare TreeLethargy (talk) 02:35, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
Video Game Section edit
The cult classic PSX title "LSD: Dream Emulator" by Osamu Sato is based on the dream journal which was included with some copies. It seems like a firm addition. However, I have never written for Wikipedia, so I'm not the person for the job. Just wanted to mention it for anyone working on the page in the future. 24.176.104.52 (talk) 06:36, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
The list at Dream art#Notable works directly based on dreams covers the same ground as this article and may be worth taking some examples from, although most of it is unsourced. Belbury (talk) 14:46, 15 August 2023 (UTC)