DREAMS, CONNECTED
Collective Loom
Follow a thread through one open web of dreams. Move across the stars, zoom closer, and open an account to read it in full.
This opening collection comes from Anna Bonus Kingsford’s Dreams and Dream Stories (1888). Each star represents an attributed historical account, not a modern contributor or location.
Read the complete accounts.
The original words, with their dates and sources. Map connections reflect shared editorial themes; they do not claim that the dreamers were connected.
Historical dream account The Counsel of Perfection
I dreamed that I was in a large room, and there were in it seven persons, all men, sitting at one long table; and each of them had before him a scroll, some having books also; and all were greyheaded and bent…
Anna Bonus Kingsford (1846–1888)
Dreams and Dream Stories · 1888Historical dream account The Treasure in the Lighted House
A second time I dreamt, and saw a house built in the midst of a forest. It was night, and all the rooms of the house were brilliantly illuminated by lamps. But the strange thing was that the windows were…
Anna Bonus Kingsford (1846–1888)
Dreams and Dream Stories · 1888Historical dream account A Lion In the Way
Owing to the many and great difficulties thrown in my way, I had been seriously considering the advisability of withdrawing, if only for a time, from my course of medical study, when I received the following…
Anna Bonus Kingsford (1846–1888)
Dreams and Dream Stories · 1888Historical dream account A Dream of Disembodiment
I dreamt that I was dead, and wanted to take form and appear to C. in order to converse with him. And it was suggested by those about me— spirits like myself I suppose—that I might materialise myself through…
Anna Bonus Kingsford (1846–1888)
Dreams and Dream Stories · 1888Historical dream account The Three Kings
The time was drawing towards dawn in a wild and desolate region. And I stood with my genius at the foot of a mountain the summit of which was hidden in mist. At a few paces from me stood three persons, clad in…
Anna Bonus Kingsford (1846–1888)
Dreams and Dream Stories · 1888Historical dream account The Haunted Inn
I seemed in my vision to be on a long and wearisome journey, and to have arrived at an Inn, in which I was offered shelter and rest. The apartment given me consisted of a bedroom and parlour, communicating,…
Anna Bonus Kingsford (1846–1888)
Dreams and Dream Stories · 1888
About this collection
Kingsford presented these nineteenth-century accounts as dreams recorded from her diary. Their publication documents her account of an experience, rather than independently verifying its events or predictions.
The complete English account is kept separate from editorial theme labels and any notes added by the book’s historical editor. Read the source edition ↗
This collection is read-only. Dream sharing will use a separate review and permission flow; this page does not collect or publish your dreams.