The Meaning of Dreams in our Lives
Dreams as Highly Charged Moments
"It is not coincidence that dream work begins Wuthering Heights when Lockwood, the interloper, falls asleep in the elder Catherine's oak-paneled bed after reading her childhood diary. That his two dreams are foregrounded in the novel and that Catherine considers her dreams as important, highly charged moments throughout her life cause us to confront the meanings of dreams, as well as the text itself as dream work. . . . Cathy herself tells Nelly how important dreams are to her, although clearly she doesn't read the warnings well: 'I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me every after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.'"
Emily Bronte--Wuthering Heights.
A Patriot in His Dreams
“The night before the Russo-German pact was announced I dreamed that the war had started. It was one of those dreams which, whatever Freudian inner meaning they may have, do sometimes reveal to you the real state of your feelings. It taught me two things, first, that I should be simply relieved when the long-dreaded war started, secondly, that I was patriotic at heart, would not sabotage or act against my own side, would support the war, would fight in it if possible. I came down-stairs to find the newspaper announcing Ribbentrop's flight to Moscow.”
- George Orwell, “My Country Right or Left” (1940) |
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