Memoir · Nature & weather
Easter morning, cattle on the graves
Grasmere, England · c. 1819
There were the same mountains, and the same lovely valley at their feet; but the mountains were raised to more than Alpine height, and there was interspace far larger between them of meadows and forest lawns; the hedges were rich with white roses
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- Source
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater — Thomas De Quincey, 1821. Part III, The Pains of Opium
- Record type
- Memoir
- Place
- Grasmere, England · British
- Date
- c. 1819
- Uncertainty
- Moderate — A dream of the grave of a child he had loved.
- Imagery
- Mountain · Flower · Grave · Animals · Child · House
- Feelings
- Grief · Calm · Awe
How traditions have read this kind of dream
Psychological
Storms, mountains and gardens in dreams are often traced to the day’s impressions or the sleeper’s physical state — Ellis connected a dreamed cyclone to a windy night.
Ellis (1911), ch. IV
Mythological
Sacred mountains and world-trees connect earth and sky in many traditions, from Olympus to Yggdrasil to Mount Kunlun.
Comparative mythology
Chinese traditions
Landscape — mountains, rivers, mist — is the setting of countless Chinese dream journeys, where the dreamer’s wandering mirrors the shan-shui painting tradition.
Li Bai, Dreaming of Tianmu
These are cultural lenses, not a diagnosis.
Dreams that share its images
- A white elephant with a lotus Kapilavastu (Nepal–India) · traditional (c. 6th c. BCE)
- The animals fell out of Noah’s ark Zurich, Switzerland · c. 1910
- Pigs on the edge of a cliff Tokyo, Japan · 1908
- Rome half veiled in mist Vienna, Austria · c. 1897
- Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream! Oxford, England · 1865 (novel)
- I gave birth to a lion Athens, Greece · c. 495 BCE