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The Mandrake Root, or, The Omnipresent Eye

Dreamed 1929 by Jindrich Styrsky

No text survives for the dream "Mandrake"--a root with multiple staring eyes--but Styrsky drew and painted those eyes over and over for years, calling the series "The Omnipresent Eye."

The Omnipresent Eye XVI, 1940, dream sketch by Jindrich Styrsky. Click to enlarge.
The Omnipresent Eye XVI, 1940; pencil and pastel 		Mandrake root with eyes: 1941 dream sketch by Jindrich Styrsky. Click to enlarge.
The Omnipresent Eye XVIII
(Dream of the Mandrake) 1941

SOURCE: Dreamverse by Jindrich Styrsky (Twisted Spoon Press, 2018), p.51 & 63; 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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