Historical dream account · English · original text

The singer’s ladder

Havelock Ellis

The World of Dreams (1922) · Endnotes, footnote 135; normalized HTML block 541

Dreamer identified by the source: Wilhelm Weygandt

Thus Weygandt relates that he once fell asleep in the theatre during one of the last scenes of Cavalleria Rusticana, when the tenor was singing in ever higher and higher tones, and dreamed that in order to reach the notes the performer was climbing up ladders and stairs on the stage.

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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), endnote 135. Public-domain historical dream account.

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