Real Dream Accounts

Dream Accounts: John Ruskin - 1869

John Ruskin, in his diaries dated the 24th of October 1869 recalls a dream.

John Ruskin was one of the most important people of the Victorian age. John was a poet, artist and critic.

Dreamed I was going up a lovely mountain ravine and met a party of Germans, four very ugly women and their papa and mamma – indefinite and they were arranging themselves to pic-nic, as I thought, with their backs to the beautiful view. But when I looked, I saw they were settling themselves to see Punch, and wanted me out of the way lest I should get any of it gratis and I was going on up the ravine contemptuously, when, Punch appearing on the stage, I looked back for a minute and was startled by his immediately knocking down his wife without dancing with her first, which new reading of the play made me stop to see how it went on: and then I saw it was an Italian Punch, modernized and there was no idea of humour in it but all the interest was in a made struggle of the wide for the stick, and in her being afterwards beaten slowly, crying out, and with a stuffed body, which seemed to bruise under the blows, so as to make the whole as horrible and nasty as possible. So what does this mean? It is quite clear that John wanted things in his life to be settled. The fact the women were perceived to be ugly denotes that John did not want to give out emotions. The puppets symbolise that he is out of control in his life over two relationships (as there is both Punch and his wife) the action of Punch hitting his wife shows that he is threatened by a male and the fact that he was Italian suggest that this male is dark in completion. A stick in a dream suggests that things are becoming to reach a climax in the relationship and the fact that this was used to beat Punch’s wife shows that he has to give out his emotions in order to end a possible relationship that is holding him back.

So what does this dream mean?

It is quite clear that John wanted things in his life to be settled.

The fact the women were perceived to be ugly denotes that John did not want to give out emotions. The puppets symbolise that he is out of control in his life over two relationships (as there is both Punch and his wife) the action of Punch hitting his wife shows that he is threatened by a male and the fact that he was Italian suggest that this male is dark in completion. A stick in a dream suggests that things are becoming to reach a climax in the relationship and the fact that this was used to beat Punch’s wife shows that he has to give out his emotions in order to end a possible relationship that is holding him back.

Which shows a complete journey of the soul from start to end, with key learning’s on the road of life! If you have seen a picture of a cross in your dream with the figure of Christ then this represents that you need to sacrifice yourself for others. If you don’t see a picture of the cross (with Christ) then this clearly shows the need to recognise your life more and it is time to begin to learn lessons in life to make you more richer as a person. Dreaming of any cross, whether that is a hot cross bun or a necklace all has the same meaning – it is time to really find yourself and follow the path to better things.

Dream Accounts: Anna Kingsford (1888)

Anna Kingsford was a famous occult follower. She was a asset to society and her dreams are detailed in her diary. Her co-worker called Maitland wrote many lies about her. Over the years he turned against her and sort to ruin her reputation. His greatest outrage was to write that she killed two French vivisectors by using mind techniques.

This is what she recalls in her dream: The following extract was taken from the diary of Anna Kingsford, her dreams back in 1888. It also provides an entertaining overview of what it was like in those days... here we go:

Having fallen asleep last night while in a state of great perplexity about the care and education of my daughter, I dreamt as follows. I was walking with the child along the border of a high cliff, at the foot of which was the sea. The path was exceedingly narrow, and on the inner side was flanked by a line of rocks and stones. The outer side was so close to the edge of the cliff that she was compelled to walk either before or being me, or else on the stones. And, as it was unsafe to let her hand, it was on the stones that she had to walk, much to her distress. I was in male attire, and carried a staff in my hand. She wore skirts and had no staff; and every moment she stumbled or her dress caught and was roan by some jutting crag or bramble. In this way our progress was being continually interrupted and rendered almost impossible, when suddenly we came upon a sharp declivity leading to a steep path which wounds done the side of the precipice to the beach below. Looking down, I saw on the shore beneath the cliff a collection of fishermen’s huts, and groups of women on the shingle, mending nets, hauling up boats, and sorting fish of various kinds. In the midst of the little village stood a great crucifix of lead, so cast in a mould as to allow me from the elevated position I occupied behind it, to see that though in front it looked solid, it was in reality hollow. As I was noting this, a voice of someone close at hand suddenly addressed me, and on turning my head I found standing before me a man in the garb of a fisherman, who evidently had just scaled the steep path I was following there was room only for one. “Let her come to us” he added,  “she will do very well as a fisherman’s daughter” being reluctant to part with her, and not perceiving then the significance of his garb and vocation, I objected that the calling was a dirty and unsavoury one, and would soil her hands and dress. Whereupon the man became serve, and seemed to insist with a kind of authority upon my acceptance of his proposition. The child, too was taken with him, and was moreover anxious to leave the rough and dangerous path, and she accordingly went to him of her own will and, placing her hand in his, left me without any sign of regret, and I went on my way alone.

Anna Kingsford 1888

So what does this dream mean?

This dream is clearly about her betrayal in terms of the relationship she had with her co-worker. The narrow road shows that she has been following a spiritual path of development. The child shows that she is scared to take the path further but must do to progress in her spiritual life.

Dream Accounts: George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier

 George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a French born author. He recalls a dream that he had detailed below:

Sometimes I walked with her, hand in hand – I being quite a small child – and together we fed innumerable pigeons who lived in a tower by a winding stream that ended in a water-mill. It was too lovely and I would wake. Sometimes we went into a dark place, where there was a fiery furnace with many holes, and many people working and moving about – among them a man with white hair and a young face, like the lady, and beautiful red heels to his shoes. And under his guidance I would contrive to make in the furnace a charming little cocked hat of coloured glass – a treasure! And the sheet job thereof would wake me. Sometimes the white-haired lady and I would sit together at a square bix from which she made lovely music, and she would sing my favourite song – a song that I adored. But I always woke before this song came to an end, on account of the too insupportably intense bliss I felt on hearing it, and all I could remember when awake were the words “triste – comment – sale.” The air, which I knew so well in my dream, I could not recall. It seemed as though some innermost core of my being, some childish holy of holies, secreted a source of supersubtle reminiscence, which, under some stimulus that now and again became active during sleep, exhaled itself in this singular dream – shadowy and slight, but invariably accompanies by a sense of felicity so measureless and so penetrating that I would always wake in a mystic flutter of ecstasy, the bare remembrance of which was enough to bless and make happy many a succeeding hour.
George Du Maurier, Peter Ibbetson, Part 1, 1891

So what does this dream mean?

This dream is clearly about childhood. This dream is interesting as it encompasses many different elemental elements. I enjoyed reading CG Jung’s dream and this is my interpretation. When reading through this overview I was quite surprised at the ecstasy he showed at the end. More importantly I am convinced that this dream is connected to spirituality.

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Dream Accounts: Franz Kafja 1883-1924

Franz Kafja wrote in his diaries on the 21st of September 1917 of a dream that he had about his father. Franz was born on the 3 July 1883 and died in June 1924. He was a famous major fiction writer. Franz suffered from many nightmares which includes dehumanization and strange labyrinths.

This is what he recalls: there was a small audience...before which my father was making public for the first time a scheme of his for social reform. He was anxious to have this select audience, an especially select one in his opinion, undertake to make propaganda for his scheme. On the surface he expressed this much more modestly, merely requesting the audience, after they should have heard his views, to let him have the address of interested people who might be invited to a large public meeting soon to take place. My father had never yet had any dealings with these people, consequently and described his scheme with that extreme solicitude which is the mark of the amateur. The company, in spite of the fact that they weren’t at all prepared for a lecture, recognised at once that he was offering them, with all the pride of originality, what was nothing more than an old, outworn idea that had been thoroughly debated long ago. They let my father feel this. He had anticipated the objection, however, and, with magnificent conviction of its futility (though it often appeared to tempt even him), with a faint bitter smile, put his case even more emphatically. When he had finished, one could perceive from the general murmur of annoyance that he had convinced them neither of the originality nor the practicability of his scheme. Not many were interested in it. Still, here and there someone was to be found who, out of kindness and perhaps because he knew me, offered him a few addresses. My father, completely unruffled by the general mood, had cleared away his lecture notes and picked up the piles of white slips that he had ready for writing down the few addresses. I could hear only the name of a certain Privy councillor Strizanowski, or something similar. Later I saw my father sitting on the floor, his back against the sofa, as he sits when he plays with Felix. Alarmed, I asked him what he was doing. He was pondering his scheme.

Franz Kafja 1847-1865, 1911.

So what does this dream mean?

This dream is clearly about his father. This is a spiritual dream which shows that there is a key message. The fact that he recalls this in such vivid detail shows that the message was the name that he was given in the dream. If you experience a dream such as this remember to listen out for the name / or names that are important.

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