# Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents Author: Beckford, William, 1760-1844 Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7258 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Dreams%2C+Waking+Thoughts%2C+and+Incidents+Beckford&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary _June_ 19_th_, 1780.—Shall I tell you my dreams?—To give an account of my time is doing, I assure you, but little better. Never did there exist a more ideal being. A frequent mist hovers before my eyes, and, through its medium, I see objects so faint and hazy, that both their colours and forms are apt to delude me. This is a rare confession, say the wise, for a traveller to make: pretty accounts will such a one give of outlandish countries: his correspondents must reap great benefit, no doubt, from such purblind observations. But stop, my good friends; patience a moment!—I really have not the vanity of pretending to make a single remark, during the whole of my journey: if — be contented w... ## Chapters - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/33/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/32/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/30/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-7258/chapters/28/index.md)