Historical dream account · English · original historical text
Blue streaks in the drinking water
Grace A. Andrews
Studies of the Dream Consciousness. II, The American Journal of Psychology 12(1), October 1900, pp. 131–134 (1900) · Printed p. 133
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We were, I think, at the house in L, where we lived, eight years ago. We had a new kind of bluing; I saw some of it in blue streaks in the water. Father had put some in a well from which our drinking water came. I thought it was deadly poison and did not see how he could have been so careless. I had drank some of the water before I knew. It had a horrid metallic taste (like the taste of copper sulphate, which I got during the fall, from a drop on my blotting-paper).
Feb. 25, after 2.30 A.M., Dream 148; no year supplied.
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The printed dateline is Feb. 25, after 2.30 A.M., Dream 148, without a year. The paper separately reports a total of 118 dreams; neither number is silently revised. The original grammar “I had drank” and the copper-sulphate taste comparison remain. The father’s contamination of the water is a dream perception, not an allegation about waking conduct.
Grace A. Andrews, Studies of the Dream Consciousness. II, The American Journal of Psychology 12(1), October 1900, pp. 131–134, Printed p. 133. communicated by Mary Whiton Calkins. Dreamer: Grace A. Andrews. Original journal witness: Internet Archive, University of Toronto Libraries scan funded by MSN. Descriptive title and navigation metadata added by Synastry; original wording and following source qualifications retained.
Feb. 25, after 2.30 A.M., Dream 148; no year supplied.
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The original October 1900 US publication is public domain in the United States by publication-term expiry. The volume title reads 1900–01 and the article bibliography dates this issue October 1900; the archive’s generic 1887 date is not the article date. Internet Archive metadata marks US NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT. Only three complete original printed reports are used, not the claimed 118-record manuscript corpus. Grace A. Andrews is identified as printed; no unproved link to the mathematician Grace Andrews or life dates is used. No modern edition, new Creative Commons grant or blanket worldwide clearance is asserted.
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Printed p. 133
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