Dream Caused Flight Of A Bee by Salvador Dali
The full title "One second before awakening from a dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate" explains how Dal’ was inspired by a dream that Gala reported to him. He saw the dream as an illustration of Freud's theory that dreams could be triggered by external stimuli. Gala, asleep and floating, feels the threat of the bee-sting, symbolised by the rifle with bayonet. The pomegranate, that probably attracted the bee, can be seen in the foreground and, in a huge version, on the left of...
