Time in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin, al-Nabulsi and the hadith

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Freud and Jung, a separate view

It is, therefore, a logical continuation of the thought, when time, closely related to the conception of destiny, exhibits this same libido symbolism.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. VI The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother

Time, this empty and purely formal concept, is expressed in the mysteries by transformations of the creative power, the libido.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. VI The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother

“Tempus ab hominibus pessimis putatur deus volentibus Ens essentiale abscondere—pravis hominibus tempus putatur causa rerum mundi, sapientibus vero et optimis non tempus sed Deus.”

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. VI The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother

In Firdusi[595] time is often the symbol of fate, the libido nature of which we have already learned to recognize.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. VI The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother

Kinds and conditions of Time

something appearing before its time

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

And it is said that a thing which occurs before its time indicates evil, such as that one sees male children having a beard or whiteness in the hair, and for the females among small children a wedding or a child; and likewise everything that occurs out of its time, except for speech, for speech is a proof of good, because the human being is by nature a speaking animal.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 155–157

So if a boy who has not reached puberty sees that he has a beard, then he will die and will not reach puberty; and that is because he has preceded the time in which it was proper for him to have a beard.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 155–157

being squeezed/pressed (three times)

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation

Al-Suhayli said: The interpretation of the three squeezings, according to what is in Ibn Ishaq's narration—that they occurred in sleep—is that three hardships would befall him by which he would be tried, and then relief would come. And so it was: for he and those who followed him met a first hardship in the mountain pass when Quraysh besieged them; a second when they went out and they threatened them with killing, until they fled to Abyssinia; and a third when they plotted against him what they plotted, as Allah Most High said, "And when those who disbelieved plotted against you to seize you"—the verse. So the final outcome was his in the three hardships.

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7345–7346

Our shaykh al-Bulqini said, in summary: This correspondence is a good one, but it need not be assigned to sleep; rather it may be by way of an indication in the waking state. He said: And it is possible that the correspondence is that the matter which came to him was heavy in respect of speech, action, and intention; or from the standpoint of the affirmation of divine oneness, the legal rulings, and the reporting of the unseen, past and future. And by the three releasings he indicated the attainment of facilitation, easing, and lightening in this world, the intermediate realm, and the Hereafter, for him and for his community.

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7345–7346

nearness in time and space

Freud and Jung, a separate view

It upholds a _logical connection_ as _approximation in time and space_, just as the painter, who groups all the poets for his picture of Parnassus who, though they have never been all together on a mountain peak, yet form ideally a community.

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams / On Dreams / Dream Psychology, On Dreams

The dream continues this method of presentation in individual dreams, and often when it displays two elements close together in the dream content it warrants some special inner connection between what they represent in the dream thoughts.

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams / On Dreams / Dream Psychology, On Dreams

Aion (god of time)

Freud and Jung, a separate view

As is suggested by the name of the divinity, he is a symbol of time, most interestingly composed from libido symbols.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. VI The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother

Just as Aion represents the libido in an embrace, that is to say, in the state of death and of rebirth,

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. VI The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother

waiting / biding time

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

In a dream it is an indication of knowledge for the people of diligent effort (ijtihad).

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 45

And it may indicate the corruption of religion.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 45

hour of time

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

Whoever sees an hour of time, from the hours of the night and the day, will obtain dirhams or dinars in proportion to the duration of that hour and its degree.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 164

And seeing the hour of answered prayer, such as the hour of the day of Friday and the times of supplication and remembrance, indicates the removal of misfortunes, wealth for the poor man, and the fulfilment of a promise.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 164

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