The Dead Who Walk in Dreams: A Global History of Dream-Ghosts
When the dead step into your sleep: messages, warnings, and mythic encounters.
Across millennia, the dead have visited the living in dreams: to warn, to guide, to accuse, to soothe—or simply to remind us they remain. Drawing on her upcoming book Dreamwalking, Lena Heide-Brennand explores dream-ghosts from ancient Mesopotamia to Viking Age Norway, from Arctic spirit-visitations to Victorian séances held entirely in sleep.
Travel through the shadowy terrain of hypnagogic visions, ancestor-dreams, revenant-warnings, and the strange psychological landscapes where love, grief and the supernatural blur.
Discover why so many cultures believed the dream-soul leaves the body at night, how the newly dead communicate through symbolic dream language, and what it means when someone you’ve lost appears at your bedside at 3am.
This lecture blends folklore, anthropology, psychology, and the occult—illuminating the secret nights of humanity.
Speaker Bio:
Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience
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