After waking from your slumber it is commonly asked if you have conversed with grandmaster Zhou. This is something to which you may wonder why. All will be revealed as you read on. It has to do with the Chinese dream dictionary and your questions about this will be answered also.

Another name that the grandmaster Zhou is called by is Zhong Gong. The grandmaster Zhou was alive roughly 3000 years ago. The importance of him when it comes to your dreams is that he is known to be the creator of the first Chinese dream dictionary. When it was created the name for it back then was Zhou Gongs book of Auspicious and Inauspicious dreams. Legend says that grandmaster Zhou is also the creator of another book known as the Yi Qing. That is why if you have woken from a dream people around you in China or from a Chinese household will ask you if you visited Grandmaster Zhou.

Within a book called the Chinese Almanac is an extract of the Zhou Gong book. Many people who have a Chinese origin keep this book in their house. Many people use this book as a reference after someone has a dream that they can remember after they have woken. This book is especially useful if the dream could be seen as strange with no obvious meaning.

The Chinese almanac has 7 categories which each represent different things that you may dream about, they cover whether the dream is about family and many other things too, but there are things that won't fit into the 6 categories so there is a 7th that everything else is under and that is called miscellaneous. No matter what you will dream about, it is all within this book and you will be able to find a meaning behind it.

Some of the dream interpretations seem to make sense where as others don't. An example of one that would make sense is the one of eating meat that is cooked, in comparison to eating uncooked meat, this would mean that you are going to be lucky.

Of the dreams that don't seem to make sense or in your eyes could not possibly have a meaning that would be relevant to your waking hours would be the one where you may have a dream about a blue snake. This would also be deemed to bring you luck, where as if you dreamed of sharing an umbrella with someone this could mean that you are about to fall out with or separate from someone.

Some of the interpretations will make you laugh, one of them would be if you were to dream of you and your partner marrying or one that is like a replay of a wedding that has already occurred indicated separation, but dreaming that your partner is with child indicates that she is having an affair.

The dreams should be taken with a light heart and anything that is determined should never be taken seriously. This more so when thinking about the ones that were indicated in the paragraph previous to this one.

In the emperors' medicine classic and which is over 4000 years old the meaning of dreams was used with other kinds of methods to determine medical problems within a patient.

If a person had dreamed of something that had frightened or upset them then it would be deemed that they had a bodily deficiency or imbalance. Falling dreams would show that the higher part of the body is deficient and that the lower part has way too much, so would indicate imbalance.

This may not be your interpretation but this is how a dream is interpreted according to the Chinese dream dictionary.