The book is a fascinating historical and cultural study, the main theme of which is dreams. The author, a historian and writer, experienced three near-death experiences as a child, and since then the world of dreams has become one of the main hobbies of his life. Moss turns to various eras and civilizations: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the era of early Christianity, the Islamic East, medieval France, Russia of the 19th century, modern Western civilization with its scientific and technological progress and psychoanalysis... And all these cultures appear in the book in a new light - the author in First of all, I am interested in dreams and the meaning that people gave to them in a particular era. Having carefully studied numerous sources, Moss reconstructs a whole layer of the biography of a number of famous personalities - Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Mark Twain, Carl Gustav Jung, Winston Churchill, etc. Few people know that these people were, among other things, also talented dreamers and that their dreams told them the most important decisions in life. Robert Moss's book is a fascinating narrative that will be appreciated by those who are interested in history and culture, including their mystical component.