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1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 269 Carpocrates..practised all manner of Magical arts; used..oniropompists, or Dream-artists, [etc.].

1833 Essex Standard 27 Apr. ‘The Lay Figure’ is a dream-story of horror.

a1838 G. Cox tr. F. Otto Hist. Russ. Lit. (1839) 247 He..recorded the emotions of his own past life in the gilded dream imagery of song.

1859 Harper's Mag. Feb. 352/2 She would frequently lay some little toy on my pillow, which she called a dream-charm.

1889 Science 1 Feb. 88/2 The effect of dream-habits upon mental work is also evident.

1897 G. B. Shaw Let. 4 July (1965) I. 779 It sounded at once serious and inexplicable, like a dream-play.

1909 W. James Let. 19 Sept. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) II. lviii. 123 I strongly suspect Freud, with his dream-theory, of being a regular halluciné.

1913 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Interpretation of Dreams vi. 402 The dream activity makes use of the displacement of psychic intensities up to the transvaluation of all psychic values.

1916 D. H. Lawrence Amores 27 The dream-stuff is molten and moving mysteriously.

1925 S. Lewis Arrowsmith xxvi. 279 He hates pseudo-scientists, guess-scientists—like these psycho-analysts; and worse than those comic dream-scientists he hates [etc.].

1935 Amer. Mercury Aug. 436/1 [James] Joyce..is, throughout Work in Progress, assaying a dream language.

1944 Mind 53 179 The imagery-world into which we pass..is just the way the dream-process..presents itself.

1996 D. F. Wallace Supposedly Fun Thing I'll never do Again (1997) 200 The movie's surrealism and dream-logic.

2006 J. Belanger & K. Dalley Nightmare Encycl. a. 42 The largest and most complete compilation of dream lore to survive from the ancient world is the Oneirocritica..of Artemidorus.