Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde


Robert Louis Stevenson





I can but give an instance or so of
what part is done sleeping and what part awake…
and to do this I will first take Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

I had long been trying to write a story on this subject.
For two days I went about wracking my brains for a plot of any sort,
and on the second night I dreamed the scene at the window
and a scene afterward split in two, in which Hyde, pursued for some crime,
took the powder and underwent the change in the presence of his pursuers.
All the rest was made awake, and consciously.

Robert Louis Stevenson, A Chapter on Dreams, 1892.

Dreams and visions


Excursions below and above the surface...





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"Nightmare" (1781) by Henry Fuseli
"Dream" (1910 by Henri Rousseau, french post-impressionist