Tall Green Trees | dreamingfordreams.com

…unexpected quarters; golden hair of girl, success; deep blue in girl’s eyes, reconciliation, recovery from illness; the hand, a great change; copper hue of man, advent of someone connected with art; moonlight, illness, domestic and financial troubles, also death by drowning; muddy river, trouble; red flames, quarrels, voyages, great changes and accidents; fire, danger from water; the swarthy Italian, loneliness; the beautiful girl, thoughts of suicide; eating, accident to the teeth; brown in river, trouble; the meadow, tranquillity; sunshine, success in love; blue sky, reconciliation, recovery from illness; green of grass, success in the arts.But to certain other features, namely the horrible Things with the clammy hands, the reference to Destiny, the ZONE ARTO, eight o’clock and half-past six, the steamer, the tall man with the cat-like eyes, the hooded figures, and the whisper which owing to their vividness should be every whit as significant as those that…

…had time to recover I found myself once again in motion this time on my own legs with all the trees, headed by the red man, in hot pursuit of me. On and on I tore, till just as I was on the verge of falling, hopelessly dead beat, and a vast green sea rose up silently before me, and, stumbling into it, I awoke.The significance of the vivid colouring in this dream may be interpreted thus: The black of the trees portended illness, which was speedily verified in the long and protracted illness of my wife; the red of the man foretold change, which was verified in my abandoning the scholastic profession for that of the pen; and the green of the sea predicted success in one or other of the arts, which prediction was fulfilled in the success of the book I was then compiling….

…shadows from the great, gaunt trees that stole out one by one to look at me. At length I came to an opening in the wood, in the centre of which was a fountain; and standing by it, with his back to me, I saw the figure of a man in a tight-fitting suit of Lincoln green, his head covered with a hood, a quiver full of arrows at his side, and a bow in his right hand. At the sight of him my heart leaped into my mouth, for I guessed, at once, he was the huntsman of whom I had so emphatically been told to beware. Had I not been prevented by one of those spells so common in dreams, I should have turned back, but try how I would I could not stir from the spot, and I had no choice other than to stand there, sick…

…scents suggestive of all the charms of an idyllic summer; made me long to linger there for ever, and, in an ecstasy of delight, I flew from flower to flower, filling my lungs with their soul-inspiring nectar. While engaged in this entrancing pastime, I heard the joyful utterance of a bird, and on looking up, perceived a lark. With a movement of its little head, which plainly bade me follow, it flew slowly away, and, obeying its injunction I speedily found myself on the banks of a stream where a boat lay moored. Springing into it and taking up the oars, I pushed out into the middle of the current, the lark still continuing to be my guide.The stream, in whose marvellous pellucid depths was reflected the red green of the foliage that lined its shores, took a thousand turns, so that one could never see any great stretch of…