Historical dream account · French · original text
Called to testify about the forgotten dream
Léon d’Hervey de Saint-Denys
Les Rêves et les moyens de les diriger; observations pratiques (1867) · Part III-IV; printed pages 311; normalized source paragraphs 20; Wikisource revision 5569465
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Je rêve une nuit que je viens d’assister à une scène de jalousie et de violence à la suite de laquelle un meurtre est commis sous mes yeux. Je m’éveille sous l’influence de la vive émotion que j’en éprouve, et cependant tout cela semble si vite effacé de ma mémoire que je ne trouve rien à consigner dans le journal de mes rêves, si ce n’est le seul fait de la rapidité avec laquelle le souvenir s’en est évanoui. Plusieurs semaines s’écoulent. Je fais alors un second rêve, où je me crois appelé en justice pour témoigner de ce que j’ai vu. Je me rappelle à merveille, dans ce second rêve, et les moindres détails de la querelle, et la figure de la victime, et celle de son meurtrier.
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A historical recorded dream in the original French. Descriptive English title is an editorial navigation label, not a translation of the account. Any author interpretation or speculation is preserved as historical commentary, not as a modern scientific finding. This is not a modern Synastry community submission.
Léon d’Hervey de Saint-Denys, Les Rêves et les moyens de les diriger; observations pratiques (Paris: Amyot,1867), part III-IV, pp.311. Original French, Wikisource transcription revision 5569465.
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Part III-IV; printed pages 311; normalized source paragraphs 20; Wikisource revision 5569465
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Content notes
- Violence
- Death
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