It consists of fragmentary scenes and dreamlike imagery, with a focus on problems related to a lack of privacy and imagination in the digital age.

[1] Björn Hayer of Der Spiegel wrote: "the cultural critic Strauß, known, in addition to his literary prose, for his social-accusatory essays such as "Anschwellender Bocksgesang" (1993) or "Das letzte Jahrhundert des Menschen.

Bemerkungen zu Sein und Zeit" (1999), spares no scorn and mockery on the virtual age."

Hayer called Strauß "the grand seigneur of German literature", and described Oniritti Höhlenbilder as "a thoughtful ride—with a remainingly youthful joy of images—through the perception channels of our late modernity.

"[2] Rainer Schaper reviewed the book for Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, and wrote: "In dreams, dialogues, genre scenes and aphorisms he formulates objections, which sometimes are convincing, sometimes less.