First dream
A whirlwind revolves him violently upon his left heel;
later a strong wind forces him to bend over to the left.
He is terrified by phantoms and experiences a constant feeling of falling.
He imagines he will be presented with a melon that comes from a far-off land.
The wind abates and he wakes up...
Second dream
Claps of thunder wakes him. When he opens his eyes,
the air seems filled with sparks flying around his room...
Third dream
All is quiet. Before him two books.
A dictionary, which appeares sterile and dry, of little interest.
The other is a compendium of poetry entitled Corpus Poetarum
in which appeares a union of philosophy with wisdom.
Descartes opens it at random and reads the verse of Ausonius,
"Quod vitae sectabor iter" (What path shall I take in life?).
A stranger appeares and quotes him the verse "Est et non" (Yes and no).
Descartes wants to show him where in the anthology it could be found,
but the book disappeares and reappeares.
He tells the man he will show him a better verse beginning "Quod vitae sectabor iter."
At this point the man, the book, and the whole dream dissolves...
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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
Quotes
Links
"Nightmare" (1781) by Henry Fuseli
"Dream" (1910 by Henri Rousseau, french post-impressionist