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Strange Dreams – April 21, 2014

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An illustration from The Jorrocks Edition by Robert Smith Surtees (1892). The caption reads: "All sorts of dreams."

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#vintage illustration #dreaming #illustration

Strange Dreams – March 26, 2014

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An illustration from a 1900 issue of The Lady's Realm magazine. The caption reads: "It was like a bad dream."

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#vintage illustration #illustration #bad dream #houseguests

Strange Dreams – March 6, 2014

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"I've dreamed a lot. I'm tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything. I've also woken up, but what does that matter? How many countless Caesars I have been!" —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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#vintage illustration #ghost #dreaming #dreams #caesar's ghost #illustration

Strange Dreams – December 14, 2013

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An illustration from The Day of Wonders by M. Sullivan (1879). The caption reads: "The letters ... tired of lying still."

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#alphabet #dream #fantastical #1870s #letters #language

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 15, 2013

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The eater of dreams from Kottō, Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs by Lafcadio Hearn (1910).

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#mythology #japanese #fantastical #eater of dreams

The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine – August 26, 2013

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Writing and dreaming: an image and its gauzy double from Cornhill magazine, 1873.

See the explanation of our repository of ghostly images here.

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#vintage illustration #dreaming #writing #book scan #illustration #google books #art of google books #women writers

Restoring the Lost Sense – June 5, 2013

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An illustration from a 1904 issue of McClure's magazine. The caption reads: "She sat there in her dream."

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#vintage illustration #dream

Forgotten Wisdom – May 17, 2013

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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

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The text reads: "It's not that we get up on the wrong side of the bed, but rather on the wrong side of the dream. Freud identified the two basic sides of a dream: manifest and latent."

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#dream #freud #wrong side of the bed #types of dreams

Precursors – December 5, 2012

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This precursor to the great Charles Fort (complete with a shower of frogs) appears in Punch, 1867.

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#vintage #dream #frogs #gooseberry #fortean #Charles Fort

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 20, 2012

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An illustration from a 1916 issue of Harper's magazine. The caption reads: "Life itself is only a vision, a dream."

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#vintage illustration #illustration #life is but a dream

Restoring the Lost Sense – June 3, 2012

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"What a beautiful dream!": an illustration from a 1902 issue of Harper's magazine.

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#vintage illustration #mother and child #dream #woman #vintage woman

Staring Into the Depths – May 19, 2012

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An illustration from a 1900 issue of Scribner's magazine.

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#vintage illustration #daydreaming

Strange Dreams – April 25, 2012

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For Geof Huth, whose poems sometimes go backwards.

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#vintage illustration #mermaid #merman #dreaming #illustration #geof huth

Staring Into the Depths – February 26, 2012

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An illustration from a 1916 issue of Century Illustrated magazine. The caption reads: "To-night her mind was too full of personal things to permit of strict attention to the text."

Dedicated to Teresa Burritt.

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#vintage illustration #daydreaming

Forgotten Wisdom – September 6, 2011

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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

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#constellation #dream

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – July 23, 2011

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"Take life less seriously and dreams more so, then things will improve, then the dream can become your leader instead of, as now, going around as a garish clown in the motley shreds of our daytime memories."
—Gustav Meyrink, The White Dominican

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#dreaming #gustav meyrink

Strange Dreams – April 22, 2011

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We're so often mesmerized by rows of asterisks twinkling on pages of old books. Here's an especially dreamy example from Wilfred Montressor: or, The Secret Order of the Seven (1865).

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#vintage illustration #dream #asterisks #illustration

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – May 31, 2009

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"There's nothing beautiful and excellent left. You must dream up beauty and goodness and justice. Tell me, do you know how to dream?" —Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

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#dream

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – April 17, 2009

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"If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke—Ay! and what then?" —Coleridge, Anima Poetae, qtd. in John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, 1927

Image from Magic Archetypes.

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#dream #flower #coleridge

Strange Dreams – February 9, 2009

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"The function of dreams, they tell us, is to unlearn or purge the brain of unneeded connections—according to this view what goes through the mind in a dream is merely the result of a sort of neural housecleaning. They also suggest that it may be damaging to recall dreams, because doing so might strengthen mental connections that should be discarded. 'We dream in order to forget,' they write." —William Burroughs, The Western Lands

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#dreams #burroughs

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