Although he provides many examples of his own dreams, Havelock Ellis doesn’t offer a lot of new or personal insights about dreams in general, except for a few brief asides at the end of some chapters. The book is more of a survey of dream research and theories up to that point.
Here are a few passages that I liked:
“In dreams, planes of existence that in waking life are fundamentally distinct are brought together, so that events belonging to different planes move on the same plane, and even become combined. Acting and life, the picture and the reality, are no longer absolutely distinct. Art and life flow in the same channel.”
“In our dreams we are brought back into the magic circle of early culture, and we shrink and shudder in the presence of imaginative phantoms that are built up of our own thoughts and emotions, and are really our own flesh.”
“I have cultivated, so far as I care to, my garden of dreams, and it scarcely seems to me that it is a large garden. Yet every path of it, I sometimes think, might lead at last to the heart of the universe.”
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