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Im looking for a specific word for when someone has a revealing dream, which gives the person clues or hints helping him to solve a problem. For example in Shutter Island, Di Caprio's character had lots of these. Shakespeare uses this concept a lot, I think its in Macbeth, can't really remember. In the Simpsons, in the 'Who killed Mr Burns' episode, Wiggum has a revealing dream in which Lisa tells him to check Burns' suit.
So whats the word for this?
epiphany?
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An epiphany has nothing to do with dreams, necessarily, it's just a flash of insight.
If you're looking for a specific reference to an insightful dream, it's not epiphany, strictly speaking.
Revelation, premonition, hrm... that's all I got.
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The word I was looking for was epiphany. Yea, probably it doesn't need to be a dream, and the description I gave was pretty inaccurate, just needed to know that word, couldn't remember it. The example I meant to give from Macbeth wasn't even a dream, it was a ghost appearing.
less a premonition than a revelation i think
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