Perchance to Dream


You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them. She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes.
~ Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

The Dream
The Dream
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Flaming June
Flaming June
Frederic Lord Leighton

Dreamers
Dreamers
Albert Moore
"I wished the dream were real, and this reality a dream. But that wasn't the case. And that was why, whenever I woke up, I'd be crying. It wasn't because I was sad. When you return from a happy dream to sad reality, there's a chasm you have to step across, and you can't cross it without shedding tears" (8-9). ~ from Socrates in Love by Kyoichi Katayama

A Sleeping Girl
A Sleeping Girl
Albert Moore

Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty
Edward Frederick Brewtnall

Golden Daydream
Golden Daydream
Emily Mary Osborn

Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty
Sir Edward Burne-Jones

Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty
Thomas Ralph Spence

Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty
Henry Meynell Rheam

The Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty
William Arthur Breakspeare

The Sleeping Girl
The Sleeping Girl
Edith Corbet

Sleeping
Sleeping
Sir John Everett Millais

Sweet dreams
Sweet dreams
Knut Ekwall

Sleep
Sleep
Simeon Solomon

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2/17/2006 4:32:14 AM ShallottLady I see you're enriching your collections, they're very nice ;) To sleep...perchance to dream...
2/17/2006 6:18:47 AM RadiantMoon soft and sweet observation in dreams..while sleep the awakening.