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In a letter White wrote in response to inquiries from readers, ".. many years ago I went to bed one night in a railway sleeping car, and during the night I dreamed about a tiny boy who acted rather like a mouse.
A story from Nevers, which is reproduced in the Golden Legend, states that one night Charlemagne dreamed he was about to be killed by a wild boar during a hunt, but was saved by the appearance of a child, who had promised to save the emperor if he would give him clothes to cover his nakedness.
Finally she does escape after one of the voices in her head tells her that if she stays another night, The Space Cowboy, who she dreamed of as a manifestation of Death, will more than likely take a part of her to add to its trophy " fishing creel " filled with jewelry and human bones, killing her in the process.
He had dreamed of his father the night before, and the Norwegians swore that before the battle they could hear the bell that Saint Olaf had given to the church at Kaupang-a sign that the saint was watching over his son and the army.
Dalí said to me, ' I dreamed last night of ants swarming around in my hands ', and I said, ' Good Lord, and I dreamed that I had sliced somebody or other's eye.
However, the idea that she may have dreamed the entire ordeal is called into doubt when she sees that Michael has dedicated a book to her and their night together.
One night one of them dreamed that when asked this question, she replied, ' I belong to the church of the Little Children of JESUS CHRIST!
One night in early 1075, about 10 years after her death, Su Shi dreamed of his wife, then composed this famous ci.
Powell dreamed of life as a concert pianist until one night his older brother took him to see jazz pianist Teddy Wilson play, and later to a concert featuring Benny Goodman.
" According to Forbes ; " Night by night ( unable to lie on her back because of her wounds ) she crouched upon her knees and arms on the ground and dreamed of food ; but when in her sleep she reached out for the pot of beans before her, she awoke to find her hands clutching only gravel.
I dreamed last night that my true love came in
In the night he dreamed of the crime, got up, and summoned the innkeeper.
He recalls, " I was lying in bed one night, thinking how much I loved to play basketball and dreamed of driving a race car one day when my big toe moved.
Throughout my entire childhood, I dreamed of the Arabic edifices every night ...
The protagonist of " The Nameless City " states that " it was of this place that Abdul Alhazred the mad poet < nowiki > of the Necronomicon < nowiki ></ nowiki > dreamed of " the night before he sang his unexplained couplet:
He had always dreamed of going back to school, so with £ 100 given to him from his aunt, he attended night classes at Heatherley ’ s Art School in London to study drawing as well as studying animal anatomy at Calderon ’ s Animal School.
" In his 1947 autobiography, Ruth gave another enhanced version by stating he dreamed about hitting the home run the night before the game.
And in truth, last night I dreamed that a griffin came out of the heavens and pierced my shield and armor, so that his claws struck into my liver and my spleen.
" One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul.
A story from Nevers states that one night Charlemagne dreamed he was saved from death by a wild boar during a hunt.

night and dream
He dozed, only to dream of Vivian, and woke, only to crash into the night table, bruising his other shin.
He receives an explanatory vision in the night, and then relays the content and meaning of the king's dream the following day.
The following night the goddess of death appeared to him in a dream standing at his side, and declared that in three days time she would clasp him in her arms.
The night before he caught up to him, God appeared to Laban in a dream and warned him not to say anything good or bad to Jacob.
According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China Kublai Khan.
It is possible that the dream affected Coleridge's later mood and caused him to enter into a depression, influencing the ideas in his writing that followed the dream night.
Every night, all human dreams are played out in Nightopia and Nightmare, the two parts of the dream world.
One night, when he was a guest in Sheik Edebali ’ s dergah, he had a dream.
In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
Hippocrates ( 469-399 BC ) had a simple dream theory: during the day, the soul receives images ; during the night, it produces images.
This increase in the ability to recall appears related to intensification across the night in the vividness of dream imagery, colors, and emotions.
During the night, many external stimuli may bombard the senses, but the brain often interprets the stimulus and makes it a part of a dream to ensure continued sleep.
Lactantius states that, in the night before the battle, Constantine was commanded in a dream to " delineate the heavenly sign on the shields of his soldiers " ( On the Deaths of the Persecutors 44. 5 ).
At first he was unsure of the meaning of the apparition, but in the following night he had a dream in which Christ explained to him that he should use the sign against his enemies.
But Loveman's dream letter decided me .... As I left the house I saw throngs of men plodding through the night, all whispering affrightedly and bound in one direction.
That night, Coraline has a dream in which she meets the three children before they move on to the afterlife.
Parrinder however, equally skeptical of the concept of the Wake as a dream, argues that Joyce came up with the idea of representing his linguistic experiments as a language of the night around 1927 as a means of battling his many critics, further arguing that " since it cannot be said that neologism is a major feature of the dreaming process, such a justification for the language of Finnegans Wake smacks dangerously of expediency.
John Bishop has been the most vocal supporter of treating Finnegans Wake absolutely, in every sense, as a description of a dream, the dreamer, and of the night itself ; arguing that the book not only represents a dream in an abstract conception, but is fully a literary representation of sleep.
On the subject Bishop writes: The greatest obstacle to our comprehension of Finnegans Wake been ... the failure on the part of readers to believe that Joyce really meant what he said when he spoke of the book as a " reconstruction of the nocturnal life " and an " imitation of the dream-state "; and as a consequence readers have perhaps too easily exercised on the text an unyielding literalism bent on finding a kind of meaning in every way antithetical to the kind of meaning purveyed in dreams Bishop has also somewhat brought back into fashion the theory that the Wake is about a single sleeper ; arguing that it is not " the ' universal dream ' of some disembodied global everyman, but a reconstruction of the nightand a single night – as experienced by ' one stable somebody ' whose ' earwitness ' on the real world is coherently chronological.
In St. Augustine's version, Tarutius is held to be a younger man who Acca Larentia meets after spending the night with Hercules in a dream.
But Anna, warned in a dream by Dido's spirit, escaped whatever Lavinia was planning by rushing off into the night and falling into the river Numicus and drowning.

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