That is also why a blood dream sits next to a teeth dream on this site: when teeth fall out with blood, the classical entries re-read the blood as debt and broken projects, not as a death mark — the same ledger rule, applied to the mouth. The scenarios people actually dream are below: plain answers first, no Arabic or Chinese on this screen, every quote checked to its printed page.
You saw blood — the general reading
The headword, in both books: unlawful money, or an evil act that will emanate from the dreamer. Al-Nabulsi's first scenario sharpens it: whoever sees himself wallowing in blood "amasses wealth and turns over in unlawful money or a great sin." But the same paragraph flips: blood staining a shirt with no known source means someone will lie about you and you won't notice; blood flowing from skin or wounds means health, safety, homecoming; blood in a jar stands for a menstruating woman; and the longest clause list in the entry reads blood as life itself — strength, wealth, helpers, clothing, praise or blame, separation from loved ones by death. One substance, one entry, a dozen ledgers.
You were bleeding with no wound
This is the entry's strangest hinge. The compilation: blood emanating from the body "without cupping or cuts" means giving money to someone — and "if he is a poor person, then it means receiving money from someone." Al-Nabulsi mirrors the whole clause, including the flip: blood leaving with no cupping, no shave and no wound means money leaving in exact proportion to the blood — the rich man's bleed is an outflow, the poor man's is an income. And the two books then agree on the switch that decides the valence: bleeding naturally means peace and comfort; excessive bleeding means the opposite — while Al-Nabulsi, page later, prices the same fork: excess blood is gloom, but blood let out of necessity in a dream means relief and the ending of worry. Unnecessary loss alarms; necessary loss pays.
Blood on your shirt — and whose blood it was
Both books run the same chain, in the same order, a thousand years apart: blood on the shirt from an unknown source — someone lies to you unnoticed; stained with a cat's blood — a thief lies to you; with a lion's — an unjust ruler in authority lies and exploits you; with a ram's — a rich, noble man lies, and at the end you consent to corrupt money. Al-Nabulsi adds the price tag the compilation states too: after the lie, unlawful money "in proportion to the blood." And the compilation's Veins entry (printed p. 459) moves the same liquid inside the body: veins are kinfolk — a vein split open means the death of a relative — and a rich man who sees a quantity of blood running through his veins will lose exactly that portion of his money. The poor man gains it.
Cupping, bloodletting — blood drawn on purpose
The compilation keeps a whole entry for the medieval blood-letting ritual (printed p. 106): cupping in a dream means signing an agreement under pressure, recovering from illness, payment of debts, alimony, loss of a business — or burying a treasure. And its sharpest clause: if the cupper works and no blood comes, it represents buried money you cannot find. That is the mirror image of the woundless bleed: drawn blood is debt paid and illness mended; withheld blood is wealth locked out of reach. Al-Nabulsi's headword clause assumes the same frame from the other side — bleed "in other than cupping or shaving or wound" and what leaves you is money.
Menstrual blood — where the two books split
The compilation's Menstrual period entry (printed p. 274): experiencing it means a wrongdoing or confusion; ablution after it means repentance; a widow or unmarried woman seeing it means marriage; an aged woman seeing it bears a son; a man experiencing it means an unlawful act or a lie; a man seeing his wife in her period means she closes herself off, or he loses money in business. Al-Nabulsi, one line in the entry's continuation (printed p. 121): the unmarried woman gets a husband, the pregnant woman miscarries, and the woman past her periods — illness. Same image, two verdicts on the same figure: post-menopausal blood is a birth in the compilation and a sickness in Al-Nabulsi. The page shows both and does not smooth it.
Drinking blood, and a nosebleed
Drinking human blood: money, profits, escape from danger — or a sin, then repentance (compilation, printed p. 43); Al-Nabulsi adds the hedged opinion that whoever drinks a person's blood "recoils from the sin and escapes it." Drinking your own blood is the ledger closing on itself: paying debts with a second loan, or vanquishing an enemy — Al-Nabulsi quotes the proverb directly: so-and-so washes blood with blood. The nosebleed entry (printed p. 42) is the most psychological page in the book: unlawful money, or a miscarriage, or — read from your own feeling in the dream — benefit or harm arriving from your superior; blood dripping onto the road means regular alms for the poor; and "it all depends on one's own consciousness in his dream." The entry even keeps the treasure clause: some say a nosebleed in a dream means finding a lost treasure. Same fluid; the dreamer's own reaction picks the column.
The finding: one substance, three switches
Put the two entries side by side and the clause order mirrors for paragraph after paragraph — unlawful money first, the shirt chain with cat, lion and ram in the same sequence, flowing blood as health and homecoming, the jar and the menstruating woman, blood as the dreamer's own adversary at home. Al-Nabulsi (d. 1731) inherits the compilation's material a thousand years older and keeps its machine intact. What makes the pair worth reading together is the three switches they install inside it. Switch one — direction: blood leaving with no cupping is money leaving if you are rich and arriving if you are poor; the image never fixes the sign, the dreamer's account does. Switch two — necessity: excess bleeding is gloom and its opposite, but blood let out of necessity is relief and the ending of worry — the same health-conditioning that lets a sick woman's braided hair mean death on the hair page. Switch three — drawn or spilled: cupping is debts paid and illness mended, and cupping that draws nothing is buried treasure you cannot find. A folk summary of "blood dream meaning" quotes the unlawful-money line and stops; the entries themselves spend most of their ink on when the reading flips.
And the two reversals no English round-up repeats. The first is inside the books: Al-Nabulsi opens a homograph on the next page — (دمع), tears: cold tears are joy, hot tears are grief — blood's near-spelling cousin, priced in the same single-word currency, one letter apart, two registers of the body's water. The second is across traditions: the received Zhou Gong text — which has no general blood entry at all — reads thick blood from the hands and feet (ch. 3) as greatly auspicious, and blood on an ox's horns (ch. 26) as high office. The Arabic books audit blood as tainted money and necessary loss; the Chinese verdict-lines audit it as rank and fortune rising. Same red, opposite column — exactly the structure the teeth pages found when Zhou Gong read a falling tooth against the Arabic longevity ledger.
The entries, briefly
The Arabic side comes from two books: the compiled English dictionary attributed to Ibn Sirin (Pearl Publishing House, 1992 — "Blood" entry printed p. 43 per the book's own end-of-volume index, which also locates Bleeding and Bleeding nose at 42, Blood disease at 43, Bloodsucker at 44, Cupping at 106, Menstrual period at 274, Leech at 251 and Veins at 459) and the Arabic original of Al-Nabulsi's Ta'tir al-Anam, whose (دم) headword sits at shamela.ws/book/1217/117 (printed p. 120, باب الدال) and runs over onto shamela.ws/book/1217/118 (printed p. 121); the (دمل) boil clause sits at shamela 116 (printed p. 119) and the (دمع) tears clause at shamela 118 (printed p. 121). The Chinese side is two verdict lines from the received Zhou Gong book, chapters 3 and 26 — the only two blood lines in the 27-chapter text. One sample of each book, translated, then the full checked passages in the sources section at the bottom.
"Blood: In a dream, blood represents unlawful or illegal money, or an evil act that will emanate from the person seeing the dream. ... Seeing blood flowing from one's body or from wounds is a sign of good health, safety, or it could mean coming home after a long journey. ... Blood in a dream also represents one's life, strength, wealth, business, helpers, clothing, earning praise or blame, weak points, unlawful food, lack of benefits, loss of business or money or esteem, inability to draw benefits from one's usual close ones, such as a father, a son, or a business partner, separation through death from one's beloveds or dear one's, such as wife or a kin. One's blood in a dream also represents his own Satan, or an enemy that dwells inside his house. Drinking one's own blood in a dream means paying one's debts with second loan, or vanquishing one's enemy." (elided; full entry in Sources)
- (دم) في المنام مال حرام أو إثم يخرج منه أو فعل يأثم به فمن رأى أنه يتشحط في الدم فإنه يتمول ويتقلب في مال حرام أو إثم عظيم وينظر فيه فإن رأى دماً على قميصه من حيث لا يعلمه فإنه يكذب عليه من حيث لا يشعر فإن رأى قميصه متلطخاً بدم سنور فإنه يكذب عليه لص فإن تلطخ قميصه بدم سبع فإنه يكذب عليه سلطان ظلوم غشوم فإن تلطخ بدم كبش فإنه يكذب عليه رجل شريف غني منيع وينال بعد الكذب مالاً حراماً بقدر مبلغ الدم وسيلان الدم من الجلد صحة وسلامة وإن كان غائباً رجع من سفره سالماً.
Zhou Gong, stated plainly: the received Chinese dream book this site quotes chapter by chapter carries no general blood entry — the full 27-chapter text contains exactly two lines with the blood character: 手足浓血出大吉 — "thick blood issuing from hands and feet: great fortune" (ch. 3, body and face), and 牛角有血主三公 — "blood on an ox's horns: the three dukes" (ch. 26, livestock). Both quoted at location in Sources; nothing else is claimed for the Chinese side.
What modern research adds — and what it doesn't
No typical-theme survey has published a prevalence figure for dreams of blood. The standard instruments skip it: the checklist behind the 2018 teeth-dream study (Rozen & Soffer-Dudek, Frontiers in Psychology 9:1812, PubMed 30319507) covers teeth, falling, being smothered and toilet themes — we re-pulled its full text today, and the word "blood" does not occur in it at all. In the large content-analysis traditions Hall and Domhoff built on, bodily injury imagery is coded through aggression and mishap categories rather than a blood item, and in the 983-report two-week student diary Domhoff reprints, even the famous teeth theme appeared once — typical dreams are rare in daily life at exactly the rate folklore assumes them to be common (Domhoff, "The content of dreams," Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, 4th ed., 2005, pp. 522–534, chapter text re-read today). What is measured near the image is waking sensitivity to blood: the Baltimore ECA follow-up (n = 1,920, DIS-III-R; abstract re-pulled today) put DSM-IV blood-injection-injury phobia at a 3.5% lifetime prevalence, median age of onset 5.5 years, with higher fainting and seizure history among cases (Bienvenu & Eaton, Psychological Medicine 28(5):1129–1136, 1998, PubMed 9794020) — a two-phase cardiovascular response that makes blood the one phobic stimulus people commonly faint to, whatever it is doing inside dreams. On the dream side, threat-simulation theory predicts precisely the over-representation of injury and consequence imagery the two classical collections catalogued a millennium before the questionnaires: Revonsuo's target paper is Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23(6):877–901, 2000, PubMed 11515147 (abstract re-pulled today). None of this settles what a blood dream means for you; the research layer measures waking fear and threat imagery, not omens — and the honest report on this page is that the symbol's own prevalence is simply unpublished. Note also the one classical clause that reads almost clinical: Al-Nabulsi's observation that blood turning, in a dying person, from red to blue or yellow may be what the dream shows (printed p. 121) — recorded here as a medical observation inside a dream book, not as endorsement.
Sources (all passages checked against the cited pages)
Ibn Sirin compilation — "Blood" entry, printed p. 43 (Ibn Seerin's Dictionary of Dreams, compiled by Muhammad M. Al-Akili, Pearl Publishing House 1992, ISBN 1879405032; a later compilation attributed to the 8th-century scholar, not his autograph text; the book's own page index lists Blood at 43): "Blood: In a dream, blood represents unlawful or illegal money, or an evil act that will emanate from the person seeing the dream. If one sees himself dragging his feet through puddles of blood in a dream, it means that he will finance his business from unlawfully earned money, profit from an illegal business or commit a major sin then be caught. If one sees blood staining his shirt in a dream, it means that someone will lie to him, though he will not recognize it. If his shirt is stained with blood or pus from pimples in a dream, it means that a thief will lie to him. If his shirt is stained with the blood of a lion in a dream, it means that an iniquitous person in authority will lie to him and take advantage of him. If his shirt is stained with the blood of a ram in a dream, it means that a rich, noble and a well respected person will lie to him, and at the end he will consent to accepting corrupt money. Seeing blood flowing from one's body or from wounds is a sign of good health, safety, or it could mean coming home after a long journey. Drinking human blood in a dream means money, profits, escape from danger, safety from trials and adversities, or it could mean committing a sin then repenting from it. Falling into a pool of blood in a dream means that one will be accused of a murder or of stealing money. If one sees a valley filled with blood in a dream, it means that he may be killed in that locality. If one sees blood emanating out of his body without cupping or cuts in a dream, it means giving money to someone. Ifhe is a poor person, then it means receiving money from someone. If one sees himself falling into a cistern which is filled with blood in a dream, it means that someone is seeking revenge from him. Blood in a jar represents a woman in menstruation. Blood in a dream also represents one's life, strength, wealth, business, helpers, clothing, earning praise or blame, weak points, unlawful food, lack of benefits, loss of business or money or esteem, inability to draw benefits from one's usual close ones, such as a father, a son, or a business partner, separation through death from one's beloveds or dear one's, such as wife or a kin. One's blood in a dream also represents his own Satan, or an enemy that dwells inside his house. Drinking one's own blood in a dream means paying one's debts with second loan, or vanquishing one's enemy." The same printed page continues: "Bleeding naturally in a dream means peace and comfort. Excess bleeding in a dream means the opposite." (the sentence sits on p. 44 after the running head). — "Bleeding," printed p. 42: "Bleeding: Internal bleeding in a dream means financial losses, or it may imply suffering from the consequences of people's interference in his life. However, one will end by receiving financial compensation for pain and suffering. If one sees himself wounded and that his attacker is smeared with his blood in the dream, it means that he may commit a sin, or acquire unlawful earnings. (Also seeBleeding nose (In the scan the cross-reference is printed run-together as 'Also seeBleeding nose'.)" — "Bleeding nose," printed p. 42: "Bleeding nose: A bleeding nose in a dream means unlawful money, or it could mean a miscarriage. If one's nose bleeds and ifhe thinks in the dream that such bleeding will benefit him, then it means that he will receive benefits from his superior at work. Otherwise, if in his dream one thinks that such bleeding will hurt him, then harm will unfailingly come to him from his superior. If he is the boss, then he will benefit or lose accordingly. A bleeding nose in a dream may represent good health. It also could mean correcting one's religious and spiritual attitudes. In fact, it all depends on one's own consciousness in his dream and how he perceives the bleeding of his nose. Thus, feeling bad about it or weak from it means poverty. If the blood stains his clothing in the dream, it means that he will receive unlawful money or commit a sin. If the blood does not stain his clothing, then he might walk free from an ill he had indulged in. Ifthe blood from one's nose drips on the road in the dream, it means that he regularly pays his due alms which he distributes to poor people in the streets. It is also said that seeing one's nose bleeding in a dream means finding a lost treasure. Otherwise, it means distress and depression. (Also see Bleeding; Cut; Injury; Wound)" — "Cupping," printed p. 106: "Cupping: (Sacrification; A medicinal process of blood letting) Cupping in a dream means signing an agreement under pressure, committing oneself beyond one's ability to comply, recovering from an illness, payment of debts, paying alimony to one's wife and children, loss of a business or burying a treasure. If cupping is administered but no blood comes from it in the dream, it represents buried monies that one cannot find. Cupping in a dream also means silence, desistance or abstaining from reply." — "Menstrual period," printed p. 274: "Menstrual period: (Discharge; Menstruation; The Curse of Eve) Experiencing one's menstrual period in a dream means that one has committed a wrongdoing, or it could mean confusion. If a woman sees herself taking a ritual ablution thereafter in the dream, it means that she will repent for his sin and her adversities will be dispelled. If an aged woman sees herself experiencing that in the dream, it means that she will bear a son. If a widow or an unmarried woman experiences her menstrual period in a dream, it means that she will get married. If a man sees himself experiencing women's menstrual period in a dream, it means that he will commit an unlawful act, or that he lies. If he sees his wife in her period in the dream, it means that she will close herself to him, or that he will lose money in his business. (Also see Garden; Hilarity; Mirth)" — "Veins," printed p. 459: "Veins: (Blood ties; Family; Relative; Vessel) The veins of the children of Adam represent their tribal belonging or clan. The parable of one's veins is like that of a tree and its branches. One's veins in a dream represent his family members, depending which part of the body they belong to. The condition and beauty of one's veins in a dream denote their counterpart in one's family. If one sees his vein split open in a dream, it means the death of a relative. The same dream also could denote deceit, evil, an accident or a calamity. Otherwise, it could represent a divided family. Exposed veins in a dream mean difficulties. The point of pulsation in one's veins or the arteries, or the veins of the carpal tunnel in a dream represent one's livelihood,job, income, or the elderly people of his family. If a rich person sees a specific quantity of blood running through his veins in a dream, it means that he will lose an equal portion or percentage of his money. Otherwise, if a poor person sees that dream, it means that he will earn an equal amount of money. (Also see Aorta; Blood; Body'; Jugular vein)" — "Leech," printed p. 251: "Leech: (Bloodsucker; Sponger) In a dream, a leech represents the grave's worms that eat one's flesh, or it could denote one's own children. If a leech falls from one's nose in a dream, it means that his wife will have a miscarriage. Leech in a dream also represent a base and a despicable enemy." — "Blood disease," printed p. 43: "Blood disease: If one is presented in his dream with red unripened dates, then they represent some type of blood disease where the red cells exceed the white cells in number. (Also see Dates) (Also see Dates)"
Al-Nabulsi — (دم), shamela.ws/book/1217/117, printed p. 120, continuing at /118, printed p. 121 (Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi d. 1731 CE, Dar al-Fikr edition; باب الدال; translation ours). Headword paragraph: "- (دم) في المنام مال حرام أو إثم يخرج منه أو فعل يأثم به فمن رأى أنه يتشحط في الدم فإنه يتمول ويتقلب في مال حرام أو إثم عظيم وينظر فيه فإن رأى دماً على قميصه من حيث لا يعلمه فإنه يكذب عليه من حيث لا يشعر فإن رأى قميصه متلطخاً بدم سنور فإنه يكذب عليه لص فإن تلطخ قميصه بدم سبع فإنه يكذب عليه سلطان ظلوم غشوم فإن تلطخ بدم كبش فإنه يكذب عليه رجل شريف غني منيع وينال بعد الكذب مالاً حراماً بقدر مبلغ الدم وسيلان الدم من الجلد صحة وسلامة وإن كان غائباً رجع من سفره سالماً." Then the short clauses: "- (وقيل من رأى) أنه يخرج الدم من جسده ورأى جراحات بدنه فإنه يصيب صحة جسم وزيادة مال وإن كان غائباً يرجع سالماً ونال خيراً وبراً وسروراً فإن رأى أنه شرب دم إنسان فإنه ينال مالا ومنفعة وينجو من كل فتنة وبلية وشدة وقيل من شرب دم إنسان ارعوى عن إثم ونجا منه." — "- (ومن رأى) أنه وقع في بئر من دم فإنه يبتلى بدم أو بمال حرام. - (ومن رأى) وادياً من دم في محله سفك دمه هناك. - (ومن رأى) على ثوبه دماً فهو كذب يكذب عليه." And the long ledger clause ending the page: "- (ومن رأى) دماً خرج منه في غير فصد ولا حجامة ولا جرح خرج منه مال بقدر ذلك الدم إن كان له مال وإن كان فقيراً استفاد مثله ومن وقع في خابية دم أو جرة أو حفرة فذلك دم يهيج عليه والدم الذي في الجرة امرأة حائض وإن كان رأس الجرة مشدوداً بخرقة فهو رباط الحيض والدم دال على حياة صاحبه وقوته وماله وعلى من يساعده ويعضده من كافل أو ملك أو على ما يستره من ملبوس أو على ما يكسبه من مدح أو ذم" — the sentence runs across the page break and resumes on p. 121: "دل على نطفته التي يضعف لخروجها وربما دل على المال الحرام لمن أكله فإن خرج منه في المنام دم مفرط دل على تعذر نفعه ممن كان يسعده من والد أو ولد أو شريك أو نقص ماله أو باع شيئاً من ملبوسه أو فارق من يعز عليه من زوجة أو غيرها ويدل دم الإنسان على شيطانه الذي يجري منه كمجرى الدم وهو في بيته كالعدو وربما دل الدم على ما يغلب على الإنسان عند الموت كاستحالة الدم الخارج من المريض من الأحمر إلى الأزرق أو إلى الأصفر فإن شرب دمه ناله هم وتعب أو قضى الدين بالدين وكان كما يقال فلان يغسل الدم بالدم أو يظفر بعدوه" — the necessity switch and the menstrual figure: "والإفراط في خروج الدم نكد وخروجه عند الضرورة في المنام راحة وزوال هم ودم الحيض للمرأة العزباء زوج وللحامل سقط وللآيسة من الحيض مرض" — the anus clause: "- (ومن رأى) أنه يخرج من دبره دم فإنه يخرج من إثم فإن تلطخ به فإنه يخرج منه مال حرام ودم الإنسان تفريط أهل البيت في مال صاحبه وربما دل على المرض في الدبر بأفواه العروق" Adjacent headwords on the same pages — (دمع) tears, printed p. 121: "- (دمع) في المنام فإن كان بارداً فهو فرح وإن كان حاراً فهو هم وحزن" and (دمل) boil, shamela 116, printed p. 119: "- (دمل) ومن رأى في المنام على جسده دملاً فإنه يصيب مالاً بقدر قوته في المدة وكثرتها لأن تأويل المدة مال ممدود شبه العلاق كلما فني دخلها عاد مكانه" Cross-page note: the (دم) entry begins on shamela 117 and continues on shamela 118; both pages carry the same باب الدال running head. Elsewhere in the same book, blood appears in the serpent entry (حيه, shamela.ws/book/1217/94, printed p. 97): فإن قتلها ظفر بعدو فإن سال الدم على يديه مات عدوه وورث ماله — whoever kills the serpent prevails over an enemy, and if the blood runs onto his hands, the enemy dies and he inherits his money: the same money-by-blood grammar the blood entry carries.
Zhou Gong Jie Meng — received 27-chapter text (corpus checked line by line; the blood character occurs in exactly two verdict lines): ch. 3 (body, face, teeth and hair): "手足浓血出大吉" — thick blood issuing from hands and feet: greatly auspicious. Ch. 26 (livestock): "牛角有血主三公" — blood on an ox's horns: brings the three dukes (the highest ministers). No general blood entry exists in the received text; the absence is stated, not filled.
Modern research. Rozen E, Soffer-Dudek D. "Dental irritation and teeth-grinding may be associated with dreams about teeth: an association study." Frontiers in Psychology 9:1812, 2018. PubMed 30319507 (full text re-pulled today; word "blood": zero occurrences — no blood item in the theme checklist). Bienvenu OJ, Eaton WW. "The epidemiology of blood-injection-injury phobia." Psychological Medicine 28(5):1129–1136, 1998. PubMed 9794020, DOI 10.1017/s0033291798007144 (abstract re-pulled today: Baltimore ECA follow-up, n = 1,920, DIS-III-R; estimated unweighted lifetime prevalence 3.5%; median age of onset 5.5 years; 78% had symptoms within the last 6 months; higher lifetime fainting and seizures among cases; lower in the elderly, higher in females and persons with less education; diabetics with the phobia had higher-than-expected macrovascular complications). Revonsuo A. "The reinterpretation of dreams: an evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23(6):877–901, 2000. PubMed 11515147, DOI 10.1017/s0140525x00004015 (abstract re-pulled today: threat-simulation hypothesis; dream content selectively simulates threatening events). Domhoff GW. "The content of dreams: Methodologic and theoretical implications." In Kryger MH, Roth T, Dement WC (eds.), Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, 4th ed., pp. 522–534, Saunders, 2005 (chapter text re-read today at dreams.ucsc.edu: 983 dream reports from 126 UCSC students over two weeks — five flying dreams (0.5%), one lost-teeth report; typical-dream themes are rare in ordinary diary samples; Hall/Van de Castle coding has no standalone blood category — injury imagery runs through aggression/mishap codes).
This page reports what two classical Arabic texts, the received Chinese dream book (including its honest silence on a general blood entry), and adjacent published research can see about dreams of blood. It is not a prediction, a medical or religious ruling, and no dream book — classical or modern — settles what a dream means for the person who had it. If this dream unsettled you, note the move every source on this page makes in its own form: the books do not ask whether blood is good or bad; they ask whose blood, where it goes, and whether it was drawn on purpose. For the mouth specifically — teeth falling out with blood — the reading runs through debt and broken projects, on its own page: teeth falling out with blood.
Related questions
- Teeth falling out with blood — what the blood actually changes in the mouth's case
- Dreaming of a dead person alive again — the entry whose veins clause this page quotes
- Gold dreams — the other classical asset the books price in unlawful money
- Snake dreams — where Al-Nabulsi pays an enemy's blood as inherited money
- Teeth falling out dream — the classic page that started this site