Historical dream account · English · original text
The animal fruit
Havelock Ellis
The World of Dreams (1922) · Printed page 184; normalized HTML paragraph block 282
Dreamer identified by the source: Unnamed historical contributor
Thus a lady who dreamed that when walking with a friend she discovered a species of animal fruit, a kind of damson containing a snail, expressed her delight at finding a combination so admirably adapted to culinary purposes; it was the friend who, retaining the attitude of her own waking moments, uttered an exclamation of disgust.
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A historical dream account recorded in Havelock Ellis’s The World of Dreams, using its 1922 edition (first published 1911). The source distinguishes Ellis’s own dreams from separately identified or unnamed contributors. This is not a Synastry community submission.
Havelock Ellis, The World of Dreams (Constable & Company, 1922; first published 1911), p. 184. Public-domain historical dream account, Project Gutenberg transcription.
Individual dream date not specified; exact excerpt from 1922 edition of work first published in 1911.
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Printed page 184; normalized HTML paragraph block 282
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