Most modern dream theory says that dreams are the mind’s way of processing the events of the person’s day/life. TCM theorizes that a lack or excess of yin or yang (two types of vital energies or qi) in the body or suffering from certain diseases causes dreams. Also, like other dream theorists the world over, traditional Chinese beliefs go that if people think too much during the day or have an excess of emotion, they will also dream. The ancient Chinese discussed why people dreamed from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine. In ancient tribal societies, dreams were often considered to be instructions from the gods or harassment from evil spirits. Some of the cerebral cortex is still active, and this nervous energy is the physical manifestation of dreams. When a person sleeps, the brain is at rest as well as the body, but not completely. How should we interpret dreams? Does ethnicity and culture affect what we dream? Discover the Chinese way of divining dream meanings below, and decide for yourself.

Chinese dream theory is based on ancient texts, beliefs, and traditions and offers very different dream meanings to Western psychologists and theorists.

Everybody dreams, but different cultures have different theories about what dreams are and how they should be interpreted.

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