Historical dream account · English · original text
The basket of snakes
Havelock Ellis
The World of Dreams (1922) · Printed page 127; normalized HTML paragraph block 216
Dreamer identified by the source: Unnamed historical contributor
'I dreamed last night I had a basket of cold squirming snakes beside me; they just touched me all over, but did not hurt; I felt mad with loathing and hate of them, and the beasts would not kill me. That, I thought, was my eternal punishment for my sins.'
Source & context
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. 127. 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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Printed page 127; normalized HTML paragraph block 216
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Content notes
- Fear or nightmare
- Religious imagery
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