William Blake, the forerunner of modern mysticism, was a dreamer of exquisite dreams, which he made articulate through the medium of pen and pencil.

God's face appeared to him when he was four years old, and a little later he saw the prophet Ezekiel, rare dreams for a child of those tender years, yet dreams none the less. Satan he beheld one evening when he was standing in his garden door; a "horrible grim figure, scaly, speckled, very awful, stalking downstairs" towards him, and at another time he mentioned having seen a tree all fluttering with angels.

Not only do Blake's visions suggest dreams, but the names that he has invented in his own mythology suggest dream nomenclature of the conventional order: Rintra, Urthona, Palam-bron, Luvah, are all names in accord with conventional dream description as used by Freud and Jung and Coriat.

William Sharp, whose dream self, Fiona Macleod, baffled alike literary cults and men of science, has left a record of his dreams, especially those of his youth.

"For I too have my dream," he writes to the woman whom he afterwards married, "my memory of one whom as a child I called Star-Eyes. ... I was not more than seven when, one day by a well, near a sea-lock in Argyll, just as I was stooping to drink, my glancing eyes lit on a tall woman standing among a mist of wild hyacinths under three great sycamores. I stood looking as a fawn looks, wild-eyed and unafraid. She did not speak, but she smiled, and because of the love and beauty in her eyes, I ran to her. She stooped and lifted the blueness out of the flowers, as one might lift foam out of a pool, and I thought she threw it over me. When I was found lying among the hyacinths, dazed, and as was thought, ill, I asked eagerly after the lady in white, and with hair all shiny gold like buttercups. ... I was told I was sun-dazed and had been dreaming." - WilliamSharp, aMemoir by Elizabeth Sharp.