Historical dream account · English · original text

The conversation after loss

Havelock Ellis

The World of Dreams (1922) · Printed page 206; normalized HTML paragraph block 317

Dreamer identified by the source: Unnamed historical clergyman

After her death, I looked for some appearance or manifestation, and about three days after dreamed that she had come back to me, and was discussing with me a matter which I much wished to speak about before her death, but was unable to, owing to her weakness and the presence of strangers. In the dream it was perfectly clear to me that she was a dead woman back from another sphere of existence.

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

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Content notes
  • Death loss
  • Grief
  • Religious imagery

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