Dreams become self-fulfilling prophecies

A person who cares too much about the 'third kind of knowledge' the dream provides also risks making the dream a 'self-fulfilling prophecy.'

There is a 'Niu Fei' in 'Liaozhai Tales' that says: 'A villager bought a cow, which is quite robust. One night, a dreamed that the cow had wings and flew away, he woke up and felt that this was an ominous dream, and suspected that he would lose something, so he took the cow to the market for sale at a discount. He wrapped the silver he had sold in a cloth and wrapped it around his arm. On his way home, he saw an eagle by the side of the road eating the carrion of a dead rabbit. Before a approached, the eagle was very tame and did not fly away, so he tied the eagle's legs with a cloth head, and then wrapped it around his arm and continued on his way home. The bound eagle repeatedly swung along the way, and a little unnoticed, the eagle flew up with a cloth covered with silver.

On the surface, the dream prophecy of 'the cow has wings and flies away' was symbolically fulfilled, but if a certain person did not think the dream was ominous and sold the cow, how could the cow fly away? We can say that this is a person who was implied by the dream and fulfilled the prophecy. In the novel 'Autumn Lantern Cluster Words', there is another story about Zhu Zhu Tuo, a great scholar in the early Qing Dynasty (editing the history of the Ming Dynasty), said that Zhu Zhu Tuo likes to eat duck meat, and when he was young, he dreamed that he was walking through the countryside, and saw a large pool with thousands of ducks in the pool, and the boy guarding it said to him: 'This is the food for your life.'

Later, when Zhu Zhu Tuo was 81 years old, he rested in bed due to a minor illness and dreamed of returning to the big pool he had dreamed of in his youth, only to find that there were only two ducks left in the pool.

When he woke up, he felt ominous and warned his family not to cook and kill ducks again; I can't think of her daughter just come back to visit, know that her father likes to eat duck meat, killed two at home, specially brought to honor his father. Zhu Zhu Tuo saw the two cooked ducks and sighed, 'Is this the end of my food record?' That night, he died.

This is also the 'self-fulfilling prophecy', Zhu Zhu Tuo believes in the dream prophecy, and warned the family not to kill the duck, but 'human calculation is not as good as the day', see the two ducks sent by his daughter, his 'psychological defense line' collapsed, perhaps this is the case, and make his condition worsen, die.

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