On 18 June 1816, Mary Shelley had a dream that inspired Frankenstein. Before and since, dreaming has provided much literary inspiration – have you been awake to it?
Which literary softie said: “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time."
Winnie-the-Pooh
Ron Weasley
The BFG
Moominmama
“Last night, I dreamed I went to…”
Brideshead
Hogwarts
The Lighthouse
Manderley
In War and Peace, what is is the dream that makes Pierre assess his "evil passions"?
He gets lost in a blizzard
He’s attacked by dogs
He runs out of wine
He straps a bear to a policeman
“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life” is a quote from which influential study?
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
The Republic by Plato
My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
Which poet “spread my dreams under your feet”?
WB Yeats
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
William Wordsworth
Sylvia Plath
In Homer’s Iliad, Zeus uses a false dream to inspire who to what?
Agamemnon to attack Troy
Achilles to kill Hector
Helen of Troy to throw a hissy fit
Aphrodite to fall in love with a donkey
Which character in a Russian novel dreams about a scruffy old peasant muttering to himself in French?
Chichikov in Gogol’s Dead Souls
Yuri Zhivago in Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago
Vronsky in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
“I had my railway dream instead. Changing trains at Birmingham, some time during the war… A timetable I couldn’t read, a blur of figures. No hope anywhere; no more trains; desolation, darkness. You’d think such a dream would realise when it had made its point?” Which novel’s narrator has grown weary of his unconscious mind?
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
In Neil Gaiman’s comic book series The Sandman, what is not an alternate name for the main character Dream?
Morpheus
Oneiros
The Cat of Dreams
Puck
Which American writer said: “Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely"?
F Scott Fitzgerald
Emily Dickinson
William Faulkner
Henry David Thoreau
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” Which wise wizard said this?
Gandalf
Albus Dumbledore
The Wizard of Oz
Harry Dresden
Dreams inspired which of these pieces of literature?
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
All of the above
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