Historical dream account · English · published source text
The Forgotten Art of Air-Skating
Horace G. Hutchinson
Dreams and Their Meanings (1901) · 1901 edition, chapter IV, printed pp.124–124; PDF pages 136–136; original scan leaves 140–140
Dreamer identified by the source: Unnamed correspondent
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" The flying dream," writes one correspondent, " I often experienced, but in my version the flight is never overhead. It is like a sensation of skating on air, just above the ground, rather than of flying, that I have. I move forward rapidly, with long swinging strokes " (with arms or with legs ?) "and feel surprised always either at my never having found out my powers in this line before, or at my having neglected so delightful a method of locomotion. For there is often a memory of former dreams of flight, though never as dreams. I think ' Why, I have done this before, I can't understand why I gave it up'." (This is a common experience, I think, in the flying dream.) " Sometimes," my correspondent proceeds, " I soar slowly upwards, and move about a room " (here we pass into the typical form of flying dream) " for such soaring dreams have always their place in-doors, while the air-skating, if I may call it so, is always outside."
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A published personal recollection sent to, or personally recorded by, Horace G. Hutchinson and printed in his 1901 edition. Recurrent personal accounts are counted once, not once per occurrence. Where Hutchinson interrupts a quotation, his original reporting phrases remain in the excerpt. This is a personally recalled recurring scene with specific actions, not a generic list of dream types.
Unnamed correspondent, reported in Horace G. Hutchinson, Dreams and Their Meanings (London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901), 1901 edition, chapter IV, printed pp.124–124; PDF pages 136–136; original scan leaves 140–140. Primary witness: original 1901 edition at Internet Archive. The compiler, dreamer, and separately credited earlier recorder are distinguished. Editorial title and navigation themes added; no generated narrative or new translation.
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1901 edition, chapter IV, printed pp.124–124; PDF pages 136–136; original scan leaves 140–140
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