本文从汤显祖的诗词入手对其“临川四梦”进行了探讨，其直接参考资料相当匮乏，目前尚未见到公之于众的任何形式的研究成果。 汤显祖的诗词当中有很多诗词表达的思想与他在戏曲中表达的思想是一致的，另外在创作技巧和方法上也有很多相同的地方，特别是对“梦”的运用上。因此诗词当中的‘梦’和戏曲中采用的‘梦’的创作手法有密不可分的关系。因此，研究诗词中的‘梦’和戏曲中的‘梦’之间的关系，可以能更好的理解汤显祖的思想。 由于直接参考资料的匮乏，本文个性化的思考不可避免地接受了某些前人的研究成果和思路，如朱熹等思想家对梦的解释。同时还借鉴了常见的理论方法，如精神分析学说等等。

This article creatively studies “Lingchuang four dreams” of Tang Xianzu by studying his poems. By far, there are hardly any materials about this subject, nor any published research papers to refer to. Many Tang’s poems express the same opinions as were expressed in his plays. Moreover, there are a lot of similarities between them in creative skills, especially the way in which dreams are used. Dreams in the poems and dreams in the plays have a very close relation. And the study of dreams in Tang’s poems and plays can help us to do some research about Tang’s thoughts. Because of the lack of direct materials, this article inevitably refer to some researches of other people, such as explanation of dream by Xushen and Zhuxi, besides, we also referred to some theory, such as psychological research etc. Key words: dream poem play reality