Historical dream account · English · original text
A stagecoach descends into the blue valley
Mary Arnold-Forster (1861–1951)
Studies in Dreams (1921) · X. Sense Impressions in Dreams; printed pages 131–131; original 1921 English edition
Dreamer identified by the source: Nevil Story-Maskelyne
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He said that colour was always a prominent thing in his dreams. He instanced one favourite dream that from an early age had recurred from time to time during his long life. In it he would find himself on the top of the stage-coach, on which as a little boy he used to travel part of the lengthy journey between his school and his home, but the dream journey took him through country unknown to him, and of singular beauty. He described the gradual descent of the coach into a wide and fair valley ; the colour of the trees on either side and the exquisite blue of the far distance that could be seen beyond the furthest limits of the valley were the elements in the dream scene that had made the greatest impression on his memory.
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A historical sleep-dream account recorded in Mary Arnold-Forster’s original English Studies in Dreams (1921). Its figures, events and explanations belong to the reported dream, not verified waking events or present-day clinical advice. This is not a modern Synastry community submission.
Mary Arnold-Forster, Studies in Dreams (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921), pp. 131–131. Original English historical dream account.
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X. Sense Impressions in Dreams; printed pages 131–131; original 1921 English edition
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Notes from the historical editor
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A recurrent dream as reported by the author’s father. Counted once, not once per recurrence.
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