Dream interpretation and desires while awake. People were more likely to view a positive dream about a friend to be meaningful than a positive dream about someone they disliked, for example, and were more likely to view a negative dream about a person they disliked as meaningful than a negative dream about a person they liked. It was in his book "The Interpretation of Dreams" ("Die Traumdeutung"; literally "dream-interpretation"), first published in 1899 (but dated 1900), that Sigmund Freud first argued that the motivation of all dream content is wish-fulfillment, and that the instigation of a dream is often to be found
The Hill of Dreams of Dreams" was little noticed on its publication in 1907 save in a glowing review by Alfred Douglas. It was actually written between 1895 and 1897 and has elements of the style of the decadent and aesthetic movement of the period, seen through Machen's own mystical preoccupations. Lord Dunsany admired "The Hill of Dreams" and wrote an introduction to a 1954 reprint of the novel. In "Henry and June", Henry Miller tells Anaïs Nin about "The Hill of Dreams". According to the Friends of Arthur Machen website, the novel is The Hill of Dreams The Hill of Dreams is a