Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have always been very eager to know what was the first dream of man. But there is, certainly, no good reason for doubting that to Adam in his lonely bliss in the garden, there came his first sad experience of life, as he lay asleep under the trees on a moonlight night before the creation of Eve, and that as the rib was taken from his side he groaned heavily and dreamed that the pleurisy was tormenting him. I must believe that believe that this was the original of all dreams. Since that dream, indeed, millions of sons of Adam...
...think, a good rule for a young writer to follow, not to relate his dreams; for, as a general thing, there is no sort of literary undertaking so easy, so seductive, and so worthless after it is finished. In my own case, however, the rule must be broken for once. My dream came to me under peculiar circumstances. They were so peculiar, indeed, that I believe they give a psychological interest to the dream. With this excuse I shall describe...
...conditions under which the dream happened to me were these.-Last Friday I read a very dull book nearly all day,-"grinding" for the Mid-years. At length, in the evening, I could stand it no longer. My mind was tired, my memory overtaxed. With one last attempt to master my author's dullness, I yielded to him and retired from the contest exhausted. To invigorate myself I turned to De Quincey. I chanced to take up the volume on Murder, and tried the story of the murderer Johnson. The first few pages were interesting. The interest developed. Before...
...while I was in this condition, that my dream came to me. And this is what...
...this point I awoke. I found my muscles relaxed and trembling, but my dream and trance alike were ended...