“The Finnish cobbler has died – a little-old hunched-back man with silver hair and large hands” thus the narrator starts his first dream as we follow him on his exciting journey through the wide country of our souls. According to Jung, our desires and fears are hidden away in our dreams, archetypes proceeding our thoughts and desires. Or as Jean Paul puts it, “sleep hides away the first world, its wounds and nights, and shows us a second one: things that we have loved and lost, and that are too big for this little world of ours.”

Ernst Steiner's dream stories introduce us to this second world with straight-forward colourful language invoking moods and Deja-vu experiences and at the same time the desire to develop one's very own dream culture.

Dream stories in a colourful language invoke situations and images which remind us that behind our daily world looms another one full of secrets and closely resembling art.

About the author:

Born in 1935, Ernst Steiner studied in Zurich and at the Vienna Academy of Music and Art. He has taught at the Vienna Academy of Art since 1990, works as an artist himself and has taken part in many international exhibitions. He has a strong interest in human psychology. Lives and works in Vienna, Italy, France and Switzerland.