Beyond the Wall of Sleep
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H. P. Lovecraft
Renowned as one of the great horror-writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 and lived most of his life in Providence, Rhode Island. Among his many classic horror stories, many of which were published in book form only after his death in 1937, are ‘At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror’ (1964), ‘Dagon and Other Macabre Tales’ (1965), and ‘The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions’ (1970).
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5'How little does the earth-self know of life and its extent!' Dreams play an important role in Lovecraft's stories. This one doesn't belong to Cthulhu mythos. It is about the importance of dreaming and an opinion on what exactly the dreams mean. The narrator labels Freud's dream analysis as silly (puerile is the word used). He allows that some dreams are not that important, but there are others that have deeper meaning, the ones that show us something that most ordinary people wouldn't understand. 'We may guess that in dreams life, matter, and vitality, as the earth knows such things, are not necessarily constant; and that time and space do not exist as our waking selves comprehend them.'
Told by a narrator who works at an asylum, Beyond the Wall of Sleep tells a story of a disturbed man whose case woke up the narrator's old interest in dreams.
Joe Slater is committed to the asylum where our narrator works. He seemed to have two separate lives: the one when he is awake and the stranger one when he is dreaming. He is uneducated, dull, violent and an alcoholic. Oh, and a murderer. He gets worse as the time goes by and the narrator decides to get to the bottom of his bizarre behaviour. And he has just the right instruments to do it ('Now, in my intense desire to probe into the dream life of Joe Slater, I sought these instruments again.')