The ring-structure of the checmical benzene was revealed in a dream
to the german chemist Friedrich. A. Keule in 1890:
"Again the atoms are juggling before my eyes…
my mind's eye, sharpened by repeated sights of a similar kind,
can now distinguish larger structures of different forms and in long chains,
many of them close together; everything is moving
in a snake-like and twisting manner.
Suddenly, one of the snakes gets hold of its own tail
and the whole structure is mockingly twisting in front of my eyes.
As if struck by lightning, I awake…
Let us learn to dream, gentlemen,
and then we may perhaps find the truth."
F. A. Keule, during a convention, 1890
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Introduction
Boat of everything. Mircea Eliades dream
Descartes 3 dreams. November 10, 1619
Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson
Fantastic voyage. A long and twisted tale
Keules chemical dream. A vision of benzenes structure
Lincolns premonition. Who is dead in the White House?
Mary Shelleys dream. First vision of Frankenstein
Parallel world. Traffic accident on the hyperway
Swedish library. The unknown book
The sky, the Sun and the Ocean. The word for world is water
Vision without words. An experiment with Burroughs
Whitmans trance. My favourite trees
A3 Poster. Get all dreams on print
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"Nightmare" (1781) by Henry Fuseli
"Dream" (1910 by Henri Rousseau, french post-impressionist