Dreams / by Percy Goldthwait Stiles.

  • Percy Goldthwait Stiles
Date:
[1927]
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Credit: Dreams / by Percy Goldthwait Stiles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    again in that of the strange room, it is not clear that he was in peril of any definable sort, nor is there the suggestion of the presence of death. This weighty influence appears in a paragraph entered in 1903. He thought that he entered a dark and cheerless house in com- pany with his stepmother. As soon as the door was closed, they became aware of an evil odor. This grew stronger as they made their way from room to room. Both felt the oppres- sive sense of tragedy at hand. The stepmother said dolefully, “They say there is a curse on this village.” The dreamer left her and turned with desperate resolution toward a black recess. The odor became the insupportable stench of a putrefying body, and he woke, his heart beat- ing wildly and his thoughts immediately on his father who was then away and in poor health. There have been dreams in which the emo- tion was more consistent with evident danger. Terror at the prospect of a fall has been experi- enced more than once. Here is a case in which the anxiety felt was divided between the dreamer’s own safety and that of a collection of glassware. He attempted to reach the floor of a [57]
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