I was lying on a grassy bank (Ĉermná?). Suddenly I saw butterflies landing on the flowers around me (cabbage whites), their tiny bodies pierced by long pins as if they had flown away from a collection. Before I even realized it, an entire swarm suddenly flew to me and landed on my hands and face, until they had completely covered me, jabbing me with their pins. I woke up in pain, and also: they would have SUFFOCATED me.

Dream Record, 1932, pencil on paper

Detail from The Tiny Alabaster Hand, 1940, pencil & collage

Alive-dead dream figures with pins through them show up elsewhere in Styrsky's art; see Scarecrows and a Birdhouse, for example.

Also: Styrsky is evidence that you can't tell if you're dreaming by pinching yourself, for you CAN feel pain in dreams.

SOURCE: Dreamverse by Jindrich Styrsky (Twisted Spoon Press, 2018), p.56, 69; primary source Sny, 1925-1940 ("Dreams, 1925-40") posthumously published (1970). TITLE: Styrsky titled all his dreams "Dream of..."; I shortened to avoid a logjam under D.

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