Diagnostic Dream: A Crown with sharp points

In a nineteenth century dream, a woman’s deceased father appeared and told her that during his lifetime he had to wear a crown, which he then placed on her head.

She felt the weight and tightness of the crown around her brow and realized its rim was studded on the inside with sharp points that pierced her forehead and drew blood.


After she awoke, she recalled that her father had been subject to epileptic convulsions before being cured by surgery.

As she began to tell the dream to her sister, she suddenly gave a shriek and fell to the floor in an epileptic convulsion. A week later the dream as repeated and was followed by another attack.

After undergoing treatment, both the dreams and the attacks ceased.

Cited in Our Dreaming Mind, Robert Van de Castle; page 368, from H. Vande Kemp, “The Deam in Periodical Literature 1860-1910”.

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