It was during the winter of 1930-31.
In the dream I saw myself go down the Ganges, where a boat
I knew very well was waiting for me to take me to the other side.
But once in the boat, I no longer recognized it…
Tied up along its side was another boat, which I hadn't noticed at first,
and of which I could make out neither the shape nor the dimensions.
Almost without realizing it, I went from my boat to this other mysterious boat.
And suddenly, I understood; everything became extraordinarily clear and simple.
Everything: life, death, the meaning of existence.
And even stronger than this revelation was my surprise:
how had no one on earth yet understood this thing, so extraordinarily simple?
Death, that was the extraordinarily simple and obvious thing.
While getting into that boat, I said to myself:
It's unbelievable that no one has yet seen it when it's so obvious.
And all of a sudden I had the feeling
that a message had been transmitted to me,
that I should certainly remember in what the obviousness
and simplicity of this beyondness of death consisted,
so as to be able to communicate it to men. I woke up…
with this idea in mind: not to forget what I had seen.
A second later, I had forgotten.
Mircea Eliade, No Souvenirs, 20 July 1961.
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Boat of everything. Mircea Eliades dream
Descartes 3 dreams. November 10, 1619
Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Keules chemical dream. A vision of benzenes structure
Lincolns premonition. Who is dead in the White House?
Mary Shelleys dream. First vision of Frankenstein
Parallel world. Traffic accident on the hyperway
Swedish library. The unknown book
The sky, the Sun and the Ocean. The word for world is water
Vision without words. An experiment with Burroughs
Whitmans trance. My favourite trees
A3 Poster. Get all dreams on print
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"Nightmare" (1781) by Henry Fuseli
"Dream" (1910 by Henri Rousseau, french post-impressionist