Both the 1562 dream encyclopedia Mengzhan yizhi 夢占逸旨 (Guidelines for Dream Divination) and the 1636 dream encyclopedia Menglin xuanjie 夢林玄解 (An Explication of the Profundities in the Forest of Dreams) consisted of individual examples of accurately divined dream interpretations whose cumulative weight proved that the divination techniques worked consistently and should be used. The content of the dream encyclopedias revealed the specific nature of the techniques. In the dream encyclopedias, individuals’ dreamed problems were solved using glyphomancy (the dissection of Chinese characters), demonstrating the importance of written Chinese characters in dream divination. I show that glyphomancy not only revealed divinatory answers, but in some instances, accurately predicted the timing of life's events.

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破梦：明末梦百科占卜中的雕文术是如何运作的

1562年的《梦占玄逸志》梦占玄逸旨和1636年的《梦林玄界》《梦林解说》，都包含了准确占卜的梦境解说实例。累积权重证明占卜技术一直有效，应该使用。梦境百科的内容揭示了这些技巧的具体性质。在梦的百科全书中，个人的梦问题是通过字形（汉字的解剖）来解决的，证明了书写汉字在梦占卜中的重要性。我展示了字形学不仅揭示了占卜的答案，而且在某些情况下，准确地预测了生命事件的时间。