Historical dream account · English · original text
The scarlet insects
Havelock Ellis
The World of Dreams (1922) · Printed page 75; normalized HTML paragraph block 146
I fell asleep again and dreamed that a huge insect—as large as a lobster, but flat like a cockroach, and scarlet in colour—had alighted on my hand. The creature had two long horns, and from each of these proceeded numerous very long and delicate filaments which were inserted into my hand to a considerable depth. I had to cut the creature in half, and draw away the forepart, which was attached to my hand, with great care lest I should leave portions of the filaments in the flesh. This animal seemed all the more unpleasant because it was noiseless, and its attacks, I thought, imperceptible. I appeared to be attacked by a succession of them.
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A historical dream account recorded in Havelock Ellis’s The World of Dreams, using its 1922 edition (first published 1911). The source distinguishes Ellis’s own dreams from separately identified or unnamed contributors. This is not a Synastry community submission.
Havelock Ellis, The World of Dreams (Constable & Company, 1922; first published 1911), p. 75. Public-domain historical dream account, Project Gutenberg transcription.
Individual dream date not specified; exact excerpt from 1922 edition of work first published in 1911.
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Content notes
- Animal harm
- Injury or peril
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