Liminal Traveller
During a visit to dreams of reality and fancy,
the metaphor of roaming the Genius of Place arose.
That living myth is a gift.
Dreams and Nightmares Look Different – 1
Dreams and Nightmares
their transmutation, concurrence and co-existence (some history).
In 1892 she attempted to prove that a nightmare
was essentially a nervous disease.
I was very much unable to agree because
O My
they look quite different to my eyes.
Image source: Diseases of the Eye by Edward Nettleship and Holmes Spicer, publication date 1897.
Report of Curator 29
Alert Alert Alert
Report of Curator 29, Dreaming Department
All,—My report for donations
to the Dreamer’s Museum for the last three months:
The monies seem to be missing.
Who is the thief &
where is the money?
Funnel-Shaped Dreams
Here is another warning about becoming obsessed with a dream.
This writer uses the metaphor of a tornado to tell her readers that an intensely moving dream can easily pull a dreamer into its orbit.
Funnel-Shaped Dreams
During the afternoon of 12 July, 1848
there appeared dreams
resembling whirlpools*
They were not ordinary visions.
The centres of the columns changed
owing to violent writhing.
Only a little song fell from any of them, and still
they pulled in listeners.
*These were nearer than I ever before saw
Source text: The Ocean by Jordan, William Leighton Publication date 1885.