Painting of an old man in a black official robe and court hat, seen from behind, seated and looking through an open lattice window at a palace under a sky full of stars
From the dream ledger Jimong left behind

Gaegyeong, capital of Goryeo, early in the tenth century. A boy of eighteen read the king's dream.

“This dream says that one day you shall rule the Three Han as one.”

Tell me your dream and the day you were born, and I shall read it with your saju.The first dream you tell me today, I shall read without a fee.

Jimong's story
Painting of a golden nine-story pagoda rising above a rough sea on a moonlit night

The king took away the boy's name and gave him a new one.

Jimong: one who knows dreams.

Round star chart painted in gold on black cloth

For sixty years he read dreams and stars.

He saw signs of an uprising before anyone else and had the king's bedchamber moved.

That night, a man with a blade entered the old bedchamber. It stood empty.

Because of a drunken mistake, he lived eleven years in exile.

Past seventy, he was called back to the palace. Once more, he read the signs of a rebellion.

In 987, he closed his eyes.

The ledger in which he read the dreams of kings stopped there.

Painting of an old capital at night, seen from a hill, under a sky full of stars

A thousand years later, the ledger opens again. This time, the one who tells the dream is not a king. It is you.

Painting of a lit lantern on a wooden floor beside a moonlit lattice window

Jimong's promise

“When a dream is good, I shall say so. When a dream gives me pause, I shall say that too. Yet I shall not frighten you. And I shall write down where you would do well to take care.”

This is how I shall read it

  1. Write down what you saw in your dream, just as it comes back to you.
  2. Tell me the day you were born.
  3. In a short while, I shall show you my reading. The first dream you tell me each day, I read without a fee.

Jimong's Dream Dictionary

I have written down, symbol by symbol, what the most common dreams may mean.

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The first dream you tell me today, I shall read without a fee.

Jimong's dream reading, restored by AI

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