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> 夏の夜の[悪夢]{ゆめ}

I don't understand why 悪夢 is read as ゆめ not あくむ.
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kanji furigana creative-furigana
Why is 悪夢 read as ゆめ？
That's a technique Japanese authors use every so often: playing with
_furigana_ ( _rubi_ ) glosses. You can put a different word in the gloss and
in the kanji, and in this way insert two words simultaneously at the same
position. The implication is something like: the title is pronounced _yume_
"dream", but when saying "dream" they _mean_ a nightmare.

See discussion [in the comments
here](http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=27310); and, for a deeper
discussion, see Ariga, [_The Playful Gloss: Rubi in Japanese
Literature_](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2384611).
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> <http://togetter.com/li/834249> 「宝貝人間」と書いて何と読む？『当て字・当て読み 漢字表現辞典』のカオスっぷりが話題

当て字 is an older term.

Perhaps, the newer term 当て読み is more likely to refer to the playful or newly-
invented Ateji.

> <http://dictionary.sanseido-publ.co.jp/dicts/ja/ateji_ateyomi/>
> 運命（さだめ）・時代（とき）・秋桜（コスモス）・本気（マジ）・豆富・夜露死苦など、現実に流通していながら辞書には載りにくい表記を多数採録。

Conceptually related to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau> words.

> かばん語（かばんご）あるいは混成語（こんせいご、英:
> portmanteau）とは、複数の語のそれぞれの一部を組み合わせて作られた語である。語の一部ではなく全部を組み合わせたものは合成語である。その語源からポートマントーとも。
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悪夢 should be read as あくむ, and it means a nightmare. "夢" ipse reads ゆめ, and it
means a dream. 夢 (dream / hope) and 悪夢 (nightmare) are different words.

"ゆめ" added to 悪夢 as a ふりがな (vocal notation) is 当て字, an arbitrary coinage of
the author. It has no currency. You'd better not to follow / emulate it.
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