Historical dream account · English · original text

The poet’s name

Havelock Ellis

The World of Dreams (1922) · Printed page 216; normalized HTML paragraph block 331

In a dream I ask a lady if she knows the work of the poet Bau; she replies that she does not; then I see before me a paper having on it the name Baudelaire, clearly the name which should have been contained in my query.

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

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