Henry Kuttner & C L Moore's "Dream's End" (short story, recursive dreaming, free)
It has at least one episode of recursive dreaming - dream within a dream. I'm not sure of the other episodes - they're either independent hallucinations, or even deeper dream in a dream in a dream...
I'll put it among the less interesting stories of authors.
Read online at UNZ.
Rating: B.
Related: Stories of Henry Kuttner, C L Moore.
I'll put it among the less interesting stories of authors.
Story summary.
A doctor in a sanatorium has found what he thinks is a cure for most forms of insanity - what he call "empathy surrogate therapy". It involves a device whose electrodes are put on the head of the sane doctor & of insane patient. And something happens involving empathy. Only the first experiment seems to have gone seriously wrong - for the doctor, at least...See also.
- Henry Kuttner's "All is Illusion" (read online): A much better story about dreaming.
Fact sheet.
First published: Startling Stories, March 1947.Read online at UNZ.
Rating: B.
Related: Stories of Henry Kuttner, C L Moore.
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