…prospect of being now able to quench my thirst, I hastened to the pool, and, kneeling down, dipped my mouth in it. But alas! Try how I would, I couldn’t drink the water — every time I touched it with my lips it slipped away and I gulped at nothing. With a tin dipper, that I found lying close beside me, I tried to ladle the water out of the pool, but all to no purpose — ^the water was in the pool, and in the pool it meant to stay. At last, worn out with trying to coax the water into my mouth, and perceiving some luscious-looking plums growing on a tree nearby, I resolved to slake my thirst with them instead. But the moment I touched a plum it changed into a reel of cotton. One plum after another I touched, but there was no exception to the…

…are no longer physical. The ZONE ARTO Society extracted your radio-activity from your material body, and the latter is now lying at the bottom of the Thames.””In other words, they murdered me! I said.””Yes, the whisper echoed, “If you prefer to use so harsh an expression, they murdered you!And they are now deliberating what physical body you shall next inhabit! Good-bye!”And with ”Good-bye” ringing in my ears. I awoke.In this dream (the following features have already been fulfilled): — Being borne through the air signifies falling in love; the bare mountains, change of occupation; the plains, state of tranquillity; slow-flowing rivers, happiness; rapid rivers, difficulties; cataracts, great troubles; pine trees, death, illness, or a journey abroad; flowers in general, the forming of friendship; beautiful maidens, thoughts of suicide; sunlight, success in love, legacies and presents; marble, death; black in streets; illness and death; grey in sky, trouble and danger from…