Historical dream account · English · original text
The hotel and the exchanged clothes
Havelock Ellis
The World of Dreams (1922) · Printed page 232; normalized HTML paragraph block 347
About the middle of the night I had a very vivid dream, in which I imagined that two friends—a gentleman and his daughter—with a certain Lord Chesterfield (I had lately been reading the Letters of the famous Lord Chesterfield), were together at a hotel, that they were playing with weapons, that the lady accidentally killed or wounded Lord Chesterfield, and that she then changed clothes with him with the object of escaping, and avoiding discovery which would somehow be dangerous. I was informed of the matter, and was much concerned. I awoke, and my first thought was that I had just had a curious dream which I must not forget in the morning. But then I seemed to remember that it was a real and familiar event. This second thought lulled my mental activity, and I went to sleep again. In the morning I was able to recall the main points in my dream, and my thoughts on awaking from it.
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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. 232. 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
- Violence
- Death loss
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