Literary dream · Nature & weather
An ice-cold little hand at the window
Yorkshire moors, England · 1847 (novel)
“I must stop it, nevertheless!” I muttered, knocking my knuckles through the glass, and stretching an arm out to seize the importunate branch; instead of which, my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand!
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- Source
- Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë, 1847. Ch. III
- Record type
- Literary dream
- Place
- Yorkshire moors, England · British
- Date
- 1847 (novel)
- Uncertainty
- Moderate — Lockwood’s dream in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
- Imagery
- House · Snow & ice · Storm · Tree · Child
- Feelings
- Horror · Fear
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
- The earthquake is coming Zurich, Switzerland · c. 1910
- Last night I dreamt we were at Simony Hut Aussee, Austria · summer 1896
- A thunderbolt fell on my father’s house Mesopotamia · 401 BCE
- Why is the babe weeping? Russia · 1880 (novel)
- I could make the summer Zurich, Switzerland · c. 1910
- A sky like cracked ice England · before 1911