Sphinx Dream November 5, 2017
Author: Beach Combing | in : AncientIt is one of the earliest dreams recorded in history. Very approximately 1400 BC an Egyptian prince, Menkheperure, was riding out by the pyramids. We know this with some exactitude because Menkheperure later had the events of that memorable day written out in stone (pictured above). After some hunting, Menkheperure decided to shelter from the […]
Preferring Hell to Heaven: Machiavelli August 25, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval, ModernWe all dream every night – a simple physiological fact – and yet most of these dreams are forgotten by the individual and even those that are remembered rarely enter history. However, on occasion a dream slips through into record, either because it changes the world or because it represents a life. ‘Machiavelli’s dream’ is […]
Hitler’s Italian Fantasy Life November 16, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : ContemporaryBeachcombing offers today an other example of a historical dream. However, unlike the nightscapes of Leonardo or Augustine, here, instead, is a fantasy from Adolf Hitler. Now Hitler’s private life is not particularly well known. There are unsubstantiated rumours about his genealogy and his sexual preferences, and his family relations (including a possibly murdered niece). […]
Leonardo’s Dream and the Kite July 24, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Medieval, ModernAnother case study from the historic dream series. This time the only dream to be recorded from Leonardo da Vinci’s snoozes. The record appears in a notebook dating to c. 1504 replete with sketches and considerations of flight: This writing in such a distinct manner about the kite seems to be my destiny, because in […]
Perpetua’s Death Dream July 19, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : AncientBeachcombing decided to bring night visions into the day a month ago, opening a new tag on – note the failure to alliterate – Historic Dreams. He offered as a start Lincoln’s prophetic dream of the President’s own death and raised some questions about how prophetic said dream really was. Today, he offers, instead, a […]
Lincoln’s Prophetic Dream June 23, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : ModernBeachcombing has been having some troubling dreams of trails of gold sovereigns in the snow and a Babylonian Mother Goddess called Lindsey. This got him thinking of famous historical dreams and he settled, for today’s post, on a classic – Lincoln’s dream of his own death. Now, as all good Americans know, 14 April 1865 […]