Chapter 1: Interpreting Old Dreams
A very well-known master of Yixue once said such a sentence.
Dreams are not just a neural response to the overactivity of the cerebral cortex after sleep, but a continuation of the events you are currently experiencing in another dimension, and they are an accurate predictor of the future development of events.
Correctly interpreting dreams can make you seek good fortune and avoid harm; And ignoring dreams often leads you into a dangerous abyss.
The person who said this was none other than my own grandfather, the famous I Ching scholar, Huang Chengyuan.
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My surname is Huang, and my single name is Liang.
is the only seedling in the family, and my grandfather is the famous master of Yixue, Huang Chengyuan.
Outsiders think that he is proficient in the art of I Ching numerology, and there are countless high-ranking officials and nobles who look for him to see his fate and feng shui, but few people know that he is most proud of dream interpretation.
I'm completely ignoring these things.
Dreams are just the activities produced by the transition and active cerebral cortex after sleep, how can it be related to karma and good fortune? This is nonsense.
But when I was 19 years old, I really had a deal with dream interpretation, and I was deeply in awe of this scholarship.
At that time, I was in college out of town, and when I came home, I took a nap on the bus and had a very absurd dream.
I dreamed that I walked into the back hill of my house, and there was a small forest on the back hill, and there were only three trees left in the woods.
One of the big trees broke off at the waist, leaving only a low stake buried in the ground.
I got lost in the woods, sat on a stake, looked down and counted the rings of the tree, and counted the age of 49 years.
Then I woke up, and as soon as I opened my eyes, I saw that the whole family was at the entrance of the village to greet me, and as soon as I got out of the car, my parents took over my large bags of luggage.
At dinner in the evening, I inadvertently mentioned this dream to my grandfather, but the chopsticks in his hand fell to the ground with a click, and his face changed suddenly.
At the dinner table, the originally kind grandfather was silent and worried, which made this family banquet extremely deserted.
My mother asked my grandfather what was wrong, was Xiaoliang's dream unlucky?
But Grandpa shook his head and asked me to go to his room to find him after eating.
Confused, I followed my grandfather to his room, only to see that his eyes were full of tears, and the first thing he said was: "I want a white-haired person to send a black-haired person." ”
He also told me that in the future, I will be like a man, standing up to the sky to support this family, and to reduce the burden on my mother; Let the great husband stand between heaven and earth, walk rightly, and sit upright.
"Grandpa, are you saying my dad is going to die?"
I think it's ridiculous, my father is in good health, he was good at water when he was young, he was admitted to the provincial swimming team, and he was a swimmer for many years; After retiring, he was hired back as a swimming coach and exercised for decades, don't look at him as if he was forty or fifty years old, but if he really started, a few young men in his twenties might not be able to take advantage of him.
Immediately, I vetoed my grandfather's opinion, but he didn't say anything else, but emphasized two things.
First of all, prepare me mentally.
The second thing is that you must not tell my mother, otherwise there will be other misfortunes.
I think grandpa is too superstitious, just one of my dreams can determine a person's life and death? What's more, this man is still his son! But after all, my grandfather is old, and I don't talk back to him, just a few perfunctory words, and forget about it.
During the summer vacation, I used my mobile phone to exchange text messages with my college sweetheart every day, or make porridge on the phone, and the short summer vacation was fleeting.
Finally, on the last day of the summer vacation, a bad news came.
My father was in a car accident and died instantly.
When I got the bad time, I was still packing my bags back to school, driving the speakerphone and talking on the phone with Wan Xin.
It wasn't until my mother broke into the house crying and tripped over the threshold that I immediately felt like I had been hit by five thunderbolts.
I sat down on the floor, my college girlfriend kept asking me about my condition on the phone, and I didn't have time to respond, and my brain went blank.
Grandpa came out of the room at this time, and the old man, who was originally strong, became rickety in just two months, and his hair was even more white.
When he heard the news, he sighed deeply, helped his mother up, and said with a resolute look in his eyes: "Where is my son, I'll go and see him off for the last time." ”
My mother had already cried into tears, sobbing and taking us to the hospital.
The news was told to her by the second aunt next door, in our village, Huang is a big family, and most of the people have this surname, so the villagers can be related to each other, she is not my immediate family, and I can't remember which line of relatives she comes from.
The second aunt is a college student, graduated from the health school, has been working as a nurse in the county hospital, that day in the emergency room, he saw a man covered in blood, but how to look at the figure how to feel familiar, came forward to look, found that it was my father.
She contacted my mother as soon as possible, and my mother quickly called out to me to pack my bags.
In the car accident, the perpetrator was a truck driver from a furniture factory, surnamed Lin, who pulled a cart of timber and was going to pull it to the factory.
But that day the wind was strong, the umbrella cloth in the carriage was not tightened, and the wind blew off the car, Lin Li glanced at the time of the reversing mirror, and did not notice his father who was crossing the road, and he didn't even have time to step on the brakes, my father was caught under the car, and there was no time to rescue at all, and the person was not good.
I can't remember the technical terms on the autopsy report, and after many years, I can't recall the words on it.
But the approximate meaning is that the father had multiple fractures on his body, and his internal organs were all crushed, and when establishing the cause of death, the forensic doctors were entangled in whether the cause of death was a head injury or massive hemorrhage.
The pillars of the house are gone.
Mother's sky, collapsed.
Grandpa walked over in silence, smoking in the hallway of the hospital, and no staff member came to stop him.
They looked at their grandfather's eyes, full of regret.
When we looked at my mother and me, we both shook our heads and sighed, full of sympathy.
On the night of the wake, I suddenly remembered the dream I had on the bus when I came back from vacation.
I went out of my way to ask my grandfather why he knew that my father was going to have an accident.
That's when he started explaining my dreams to me.
Grandpa said.
In the woods, there should have been many trees, but you only saw two big and one small, the three generations of our Huang family, representing the three men of our Huang family.
Me, your dad, and you.
And when you see that the big tree is cut off, it represents your father, and the little sapling next to it is you.
Your father and I represent two towering trees, and now that your father is gone, we are left alone.