Historical dream account · French · original text

The sleepwalker answers my secret questions

Léon d’Hervey de Saint-Denys

Les Rêves et les moyens de les diriger; observations pratiques (1867) · Part III-IV; printed pages 319, 320; normalized source paragraphs 39; Wikisource revision 5569465

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Dans un autre rêve : « Je crois interroger une somnambule sur plusieurs questions qui m’intéressent très fort. Elle répond à tout avec une connaissance de mes plus secrètes pensées dont je demeure abasourdi. Elle me donne des conseils et des éclaircissements qui me frappent par leur justesse. J’étais étonné de n’avoir pas deviné moi-même les vérités qui m’étaient démontrées, et cependant la mise en lumière de ces vérités n’était que le résultat des rapprochements et des déductions opérés dans mon propre esprit. »

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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.319, 320. Original French, Wikisource transcription revision 5569465.

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Part III-IV; printed pages 319, 320; normalized source paragraphs 39; Wikisource revision 5569465

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