Tag Archives: Dreams

2014: Dream

Lou Beach: Chair Dream (c. 2014) (source)

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1865: John Wilkes Booth Shot Me!

In a letter published in the April 1910 issue of The Journal of Psychical Research, a woman named Ella Hughes recalled a childhood connection to John Wilkes Booth and a strange dream of her mother’s at the time of Lincoln’s … Continue reading

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1892: Its Leaves Began to Turn to Flame

From The Gateway (“A magazine devoted to literature, economics, and social service”) Vol. XIX, No. 2 (September 1912): Two friends, at a distance of some miles from each other, had the same bizarre dream. The first account comes to us … Continue reading

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1845: The Returned Clerk

THE RETURNED CLERK (1845) A person writing with authority said, “In 1845, I dreamt that on going to my office in the morning, I found seated at his usual desk a clerk, who had left me a twelve-month or more … Continue reading

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1883: The Armed Goddess

THE ARMED GODDESS I dreamed that I sat reading in my study, with books lying about all round me. Suddenly a voice, marvellously clear and silvery, called me by name. Starting up and turning, I saw behind me a long … Continue reading

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1904: A Nightmare

In 1904…I was staying at the Hotel Scholastika, on the borders of the Aachensee, in Austria. I dreamed one night that I was walking down a sort of pathway between two fields, separated from these last by high iron railings, … Continue reading

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1871: A Sound Like the Humming of Bees

In order to prove that almost any kind of dream can, with tolerable certainty, be excited by special classes of stimulants, M. Maury caused a series of experiments to be performed on himself when asleep, which afforded very satisfactory results. … Continue reading

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1694: An Unusual Incident at Sea

The following story I had from the mouth of the very person who was chiefly concerned in it. I mean the captain of the ship itself. One Captain Thomas Rogers, commander of a ship called the Society, was bound on … Continue reading

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1884: A Prophetic Dream

A STRANGE DREAM A curious instance of a dream coming true occurred to me this winter. While at college last term I had the following dream: I dreamt I was going to visit a strange place, and I was permitted … Continue reading

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