Perhaps it was all a vividly conceived dream.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

He saw with John Hunter now that the perfectability of man was a dream.

One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified.

At that moment Kipling was overwhelmed with awed amazement, suddenly recalling that these identical details of scene, action and word had occurred to him in a dream six weeks earlier.

Dr. Hilprecht was uncertain as to the language used by the ancient priest in his dream.

Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

It was like a recurrent, annoying dream, but now the dream was beginning to take on overtones of a nightmare.

However, Haney knew it was not a dream.

Here was what was called the American dream, namely, the effort to build a structure which would be something new in history and to do so in such fashion that God could bless it.

The American dream was compounded of many strains.

Well, what did that matter when the sun was shining and there were dreams to dream about??

Her mouth, soft and full, was something for any man to dream about.

But now the dream was over.

There was no dream of escape for these people.

It is alleged, too, that at a time when the influence of Ambrose required vigorous support, he was admonished in a dream to search for, and found under the pavement of the church, the remains of two martyrs, Gervasius and Protasius.

As soon as he woke from the dream, the young Aeschylus began writing a tragedy, and his first performance took place in 499 BC, when he was only 26 years old ; He would win his first victory at the City Dionysia in 484 BC.

But, in denying any physical reality for this dream, how could the brain possibly compose that realistic, vividly visual continuity uninterrupted by misty fadeout, violent break or sudden substitution??

Irrealist writing often highlights this irreality, and our strange fascination with it, by combining the unease we feel because the real world doesn't conform to our desires with the narrative quality of the dream state ( where reality is constantly and inexplicably being undermined ); it is thus said to communicate directly, " by feeling rather than articulation, the uncertainties inherent in human existence or, to put it another way ... the irreconcilability between human aspiration and human reality.

In-flght refueling, long a dream of airmen, became a reality in 1954 with the introduction of the KC-97 Stratotanker into active service.

The book ends with the narrator awakening from his dream of heaven into the unpleasant reality of wartime Britain, in conscious imitation of The Pilgrim's Progress, the last sentence of the " First Part " of which is: " So I awoke, and behold, it was a Dream.

* The Lathe of Heaven ( 1971 ), by Ursula K. Le Guin, a man is able to " effectively " dream, changing waking reality.

This dream turned into a reality with the French Revolution, although it was later compromised by excess of the terror of Maximilien Robespierre.

A visionary dream has today become a glorious reality.

This is the ability to perceive whether a perception is an image of something else, related somehow but not the same, and therefore allows humans to perceive that a dream or memory or a reflection in a mirror is not reality as such.

* The " Dream argument " of Descartes and Zhuangzi supposes reality to be indistinguishable from a dream.

Dream incorporation is a phenomenon whereby an actual sensation, such as environmental sounds, is incorporated into dreams, such as hearing a phone ringing in a dream while it is ringing in reality or dreaming of urination while wetting the bed.

* Либретто во сне и наяву ( Libretto in dream and in reality ), holding Russian and some Western libretti ( in the Russian language, as Microsoft Word files ), notably: Libretti of classic Russian operas ( in Russian )

Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, Jack Williamson characterized Heinlein's story as " a dream of personal freedom " written with " an enviable craftsmanship ", noted that the novel " carries its thematic burden tightly ", unlike Heinlein's later adult novels, and praised The Rolling Stones for its " sense of an accurately extrapolated future background, with all of the new technologies given an air of commonplace reality ".

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.

In 1915, his dream became reality with the formation of the Taos Society of Artists, of which Phillips was a founding member together with his friends Ernest Blumenschein, Joseph Henry Sharp, and three other artists.

At the ranch, the dream appears to move closer to reality.

At the time, newspaper The Age commented-" In the face of almost insurmountable odds, the Great Ocean Road has materialised from a dream or ' wild-cat scheme ', as many dubbed it, into concrete reality ".

Campbell's supernatural horror novels include Incarnate ( 1983 ), in which the boundaries between dream and reality are gradually broken down ; and Midnight Sun ( 1990 ), in which an alien entity apparently seeks entry to the world through the mind of a children's writer.

By using various arguments, such as the analysis of the three states of experience — wakefulness, dream, and deep sleep, he established the singular reality of Brahman, in which Brahman, the universe and the Atman or the Self, were one and the same.

Planting the first vines in 2001, the founders started molding reality from their dream of opening a winery in New Kent County, Virginia.

* Beelzebub ( voiced by Marty Ingels )-The Devil, first appearing in Darkwing's dream and reality in " Dead Duck " and then for a real battle in " Hot Spells ".

The city ’ s governing body set out to make the dream a reality, and soon resolutions were passed by the city council authorizing the city to move forward with the plans.

This very controversial issue was bitterly contested for over three years and finally in 1949, this dream became a reality when the junior and senior high schools were consolidated into one school using the Delaware facilities.

No auto maker would dream of putting the head on the engine before he fitted the pistons in the block.

As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.

Froling had planned to build his dream house on the plot of land he received through inheritance.

In the Elizabethan era, some people believed pinning bay leaves to one's pillow on the eve of Saint Valentine's Day would permit one to see one's future spouse in a dream.

In the early 1950s, Armand set aside his dream to focus on developing his company's other tracked vehicles, but by the end of the decade, smaller, more efficient engines had been developed and were starting to come onto the market.

Pasternak later said, " If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.

Meditating on the throat chakra is important for lucid dreaming and the practices of dream yoga.

As Hope descends to the ground and cradles Cable's lifeless arm, Xavier reflects on everything that has transpired and states that, while he feels that Hope has indeed come to save mutantkind and revive his dream, she is still only a young woman and will have a long and difficult journey before she can truly achieve her potential.

Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his subsequent films operated on " dream logic ", non-linear narrative structures: Lost Highway ( 1997 ), Mulholland Drive ( 2001 ) and Inland Empire ( 2006 ).

Schastye vechnoi nochi includes a visually very striking vision of a medusa-like monster superimposed on a night-time snow scene, and * Posle smerti * has a somewhat subtler dream vision of a dead girl, picked out by extra arc lighting, walking through a wind-blown cornfield in the dusk.

' The subject situates himself as determined by the phantasy ... whether in the dream or in any of the more or less well-developed forms of day-dreaming '; and as a rule ' a subject's fantasies are close variations on a single theme ... the " fundamental fantasy "... minimizing the variations in meaning which might otherwise cause a problem for desire '.

This text recounts a prophetic dream by Nebuchadnezzar, in which the previous empires had been Babylonian, Persian, Grecian and Roman ; the last empire, they concluded, would be established by the returning Jesus as King of kings and Lord of Lords to reign with his saints on earth for a thousand years.

However, the “ actual sounds that she hears are accounted for by the efforts of the faithful servant to communicate with her, there is still a hint of supernatural in her dream, inspired, it would be seem, by the fact that she is on the spot of her father ’ s murder and that his unburied skeleton is concealed in the room next hers ”.

:* Miketz, on Genesis 41 – 44: Pharaoh's dream, Joseph's in government, Joseph's brothers visit Egypt

With the dream of building a lucrative overseas colony for Scotland, the Company of Scotland invested in the Darien scheme, an ambitious plan devised by William Paterson to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama in the hope of establishing trade with the Far East.

The next year on December 18 the Chargers faced the unbeaten Colts ; the Colts dream of the first perfect season since 1972 failed as the Chargers won 26-17.

Beyond The Sea was a lifelong dream project for Spacey, who took on co-writing, directing, co-producing and starring duties in the biography / musical about Darin's life, career, and relationship with actress Sandra Dee.

Also, Charles Lamb provided Coleridge on 15 April 1797 with a copy of his " A Vision of Repentance ", a poem that discussed a dream containing imagery similar to those in Kubla Khan.

" When talking about the poem on its own, Hunt claimed it " is a voice and a vision, an everlasting tune in our mouths, a dream fit for Cambuscan and all his poets, a dance of pictures such as Giotto or Cimabue, revived and re-inspired, would have made for a Storie of Old Tartarie, a piece of the invisible world made visible by a sun at midnight and sliding before our eyes ...

Scores on these corollaries and correctly identifying the experience as a dream increased with lucidity experience.

In 2006 Ullmann announced that she'd been forced to give up on her dream of making a film based on A Doll's House.