Historical dream account · French · original text
A strange smell fills the empty apartment
Léon d’Hervey de Saint-Denys
Les Rêves et les moyens de les diriger; observations pratiques (1867) · Part III-VI; printed pages 353; normalized source paragraphs 7; Wikisource revision 5698927
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« Une autre nuit, je rêve que je fais une visite à un ami, que je ne trouve personne chez lui, mais que je remarque dans toutes les pièces de son appartement une odeur assez forte et très singulière, qui ne laissait pas que de m’inquiéter. Je m’éveille, et ma première pensée est naturellement de supposer que cette odeur devait être répandue en réalité dans ma propre chambre. Je me lève ; j’entrouvre les portes, les fenêtres. Cette fois, je ne sens absolument rien, ni entre deux sommeils, ni le lendemain même au point du jour. » N’est-il pas probable que cette odeur (que je n’avais d’ailleurs aucun souvenir d’avoir jamais sentie) était encore une perception très subtile due au sommeil, plutôt qu’une vague réminiscence de l’odorat ?
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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-VI, pp.353. Original French, Wikisource transcription revision 5698927.
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Part III-VI; printed pages 353; normalized source paragraphs 7; Wikisource revision 5698927
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