Historical dream account · English · original historical text
The stifling vapor and the sponge
Grace A. Andrews
Studies of the Dream Consciousness. II, The American Journal of Psychology 12(1), October 1900, pp. 131–134 (1900) · Printed p. 132
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I was holding a can from which came a vapor which the sponge absorbed. I soon began to be oppressed by the strong, stifling choking odor, and wondered how long I could stand it before becoming chloroformed myself.
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Source & context
Grace A. Andrews records this short smell dream. Her following waking qualification reads: “(I woke from the dream almost immediately and analyzed the experience as carefully as possible, remembered that I had had no dream of smelling while keeping the record, and went to sleep again.)” The author describes her own remembered sensation; it is not an instruction to use chloroform or evidence of actual exposure. No calendar date is supplied.
Grace A. Andrews, Studies of the Dream Consciousness. II, The American Journal of Psychology 12(1), October 1900, pp. 131–134, Printed p. 132. 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.
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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. 132
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- Historical recollection
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