Abstract
Introduction. The text of a dream, recorded in oral lore and handwritten books of dream interpretations, is considered in the article. The published work is aimed at the study of the process of forming a mythological narrative, which is based on dreams. Research methods accumulate tools of scientific knowledge, borrowed from Philosophy, Psychology and Cultural Anthropology. The obtained results. In traditional culture dreaming is perceived as a meta-message that must be adapted to the other members of society. The transformation of a dream into a text occurs through a logical explanation of obscure images of sleep, i. e. visually asymmetric visions of the subconscious as if squeezed into the parameters of the causal sequence. A certain similarity is considered as a typical feature of different dream texts. It is explained by the fact that they are formed in a common mental field of culture. In this regard, their interpretation takes place within the conceptual apparatus of the mythological picture of the world, which is dual. Typical dream plots and variants of their interpretation are contained in the so-called books of dream interpretations. The existence of the dream interpretation tradition until nowadays is an evidence of its relevance and is explained by the need of contemporaries to establish contact with the invisible world in order to possess hidden knowledge and predict the future. In this case, the text of the dream acquires dialectal characteristics, because it is the result of mythological thinking, but at the same time it produces mental algorithms. Thus, the verbal translation of a dream is understood as the creation of a text of the myth that can be positioned as its own or collective history. Despite the fact that modern culture tends to individualization and a certain isolation, dreaming is not always perceived as a purely personal message, that has caused the emergence of phenomenological approaches in its interpretation.
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