Historical dream account · French · original text

Hearing the distant piano tuner

Léon d’Hervey de Saint-Denys

Les Rêves et les moyens de les diriger; observations pratiques (1867) · Part III-VI; printed pages 353, 354; normalized source paragraphs 8; Wikisource revision 5698927

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L’exemple suivant se rapporte au sens de l’ouïe : « Je rêve que j’entends accorder un piano, et j’apprends, en effet, que ma sœur en a fait accorder un à l’heure matinale où je rêvais encore. Cependant, je n’avais aucune raison pour songer à cela ; j’ignorais absolument que l’accordeur dût venir ; et les dispositions locales sont telles que je ne pouvais pas même, de mon lit, à l’état de veille, entendre le moins du monde les accords les mieux nourris exécutés sur cet instrument. »

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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, 354. Original French, Wikisource transcription revision 5698927.

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Part III-VI; printed pages 353, 354; normalized source paragraphs 8; Wikisource revision 5698927

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