dreams in literature

[Admin]

http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/midsummer/

I also believe Raskolnikov is plagued by dreams, or rather by insane nightmares, in Crime and Punishment.

[Peer Gynt]

'The Dream of Gerontius' by Newman

[prospicio]

William S. Burroughs wrote a book entirely about dreams (My Education - A Book of Dreams), although many of them were heavily influenced by drugs.

There are a few significant dreams in Crime and Punishment. I particularly remember one of Raskolnikov as a child witnessing the beating and death of an overworked horse.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest contains graphic metaphoric dreams of a devilish factory.

[megeuss]

hello. I am looking for different poems, novels, short stories etc. which mention, or have "dreams" in them (for example, Alice from Alice in Wonderland dreams). If anyone knows of a piece of literature which refers to a dream, could you please tell me the dream and a short summary of what happens in the dream (as welll as where the dream comes from)? Thank you very much for reading this!

[onix]

Novalis - Heinrich von Ofterdingen

[Rellehhpesoj]

if this does not ostracize me from this group, you may want to rent the movie "waking life" there are some interesting ideas about dreams throughout it.

[D'Artagnan]

Perhaps it's not specifically what you want, but you may want to check out La Vida es Sueño ("Life is a Dream"), a play by Calderón de la Barca and one of the landmarks in Spanish lit. It's pretty interesting!

Another example that comes to mind is the short story "The Angel of the Odd", by Edgar Allan Poe, in which the protagonist, after having some liquor and dozing off, happens to meet a quaint character, a man made of barrels and bottles who claims to be the Angel of the Odd. Supposedly this being is responsible for causing all strange events and coincidences in the world. Well, actually in the story they don't ever tell you that it was a dream, but it can be easily inferred that that is the case indeed. :)

[Caito]

This may be too late for you... but in Jane Eyre there is quite a bit of dreaming. A recurring theme is a dream of a small, crying child, whichis supposed to herald disaster. Jane has disturbing dreams two nights before she is supposed to get married. These include the crying child. One of her dreams is of Thornfield all blackened and burnt, as if in a fire. Later in the book she returns to Thornfield and there has indeed been a fire; it looks just as it did in her dream.
She also has two other disturbing dreams on the same night. Sure enough, everything starts to go wrong.
There is a dream-like sequence earlier in the book, too: the 'ghost' in the Red Room.

[Elf]

for dreams are stories loicated at http://aghostwriter.com. Good luck.

[profrandom]

Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels are based around the idea of dreams.

[DaScouser]

Lockwood in Wuthering Heights has that initial dream which sets the mood of the book.

[amuse]

this is what happens when you indulge in that guilty pleasure, no, not ice cream! :D :D :banana:
checking out who's online. :blush:

anyway, thank you Guest.
i like the sounds of this one, and we have that other dream thread in General Chat going on - anyone?
i'm on overload, will contribute later, just wanted to bring this back up.

offhand, Igraine dreaming/seeing Uther in danger when at war (Mists of Avalon) comes to mind.

[the farno]

hello all! I am researching how the use of dreams in writing serves the actual story. In particular, I am interested in distinguishing dreams that are ‘mythical’ in that they represent universal truths and emotions, from those which are deliberately more specific representations of a character’s individual subconscious, and how these two ‘types’ of dreams may or not be blended together to serve the story. I’m also interested in what works more effectively, in differing contexts, i.e. how different ways of using dreams affects the overall feel of a piece of literature, and how it affects the relationship between the reader and the character (do we see the character as 'real' or as an extension of a myth?). Anyone with any thoughts to offer or who could point me in the right direction towards any critical literature on such a subject, it would be much appreciated....thankyou :-)

[amuse]

hm...Robert Louis Stevenson was irked at his wife because she woke him up one night - apparently he was in the middle of a dream which was to have been a scene for a book he was "researching" in his sleep. not sure how to make that sound right.

re: the reality of characters...i dreamt one night that i was in the kitchen with the two main characters of Shogun - it was very bizarre to be listening to their private conversation...

[mono]

Going back to the first question, I believe I remember learning that the poem, "Kubla Khan," Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote entirely about an opium-driven dream. Apparently where the poem ends was not the end of the dream; someone interrupted him and he could never end the work.

[imthefoolonthehill]

Stephen King's Pet Semetary (corny sounding name, good book) has a good'un