Historical dream account · English · original text

The question about Greek

Havelock Ellis

The World of Dreams (1922) · Printed page 199; normalized HTML paragraph block 307

I then dreamed that I was with my friend and asking him (he had been a clergyman and Biblical scholar) whether, in his opinion, Jesus had been able to speak Greek. I awoke before I received his answer, but no sort of doubt, hesitation, or surprise was aroused by his appearance alive.

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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. 199. Public-domain historical dream account, Project Gutenberg transcription.

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  • Death loss
  • Grief

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