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Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams

Wednesday 5 April 2017 at 18:55

Alicia Puglionesi explores a curious case of supposed dream telepathy at the end of the US Civil War, in which old ideas about the prophetic nature of dreaming collided with loss, longing, and new possibilities of communication at a distance.

Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/04/05/lofty-only-in-sound-crossed-wires-and-community-in-19th-century-dreams/