Historical dream account · English · published source text
Turning Edinburgh’s Corner into the Sea
Horace G. Hutchinson
Dreams and Their Meanings (1901) · 1901 edition, chapter IV, printed pp.154–155; PDF pages 166–167; original scan leaves 170–171
Dreamer identified by the source: Unnamed correspondent
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" Once," writes a correspondent, " I had a very odd dream experience. I was preparing busily, but not anxiously, for an examination, to pass which I had to go to Edinburgh. Some weeks before the date of the examination I seemed in a dream to be walking through the familiar streets of that city. I was troubled, knowing that it was not yet time for me to be there. As I walked along I suddenly thought ' Perhaps this is only a dream. If so, these houses and streets are not real, and I can change them at will. Therefore I resolve, if I am dreaming, that I shall come to the sea on turning this corner.' And surely enough I stepped round on firm brown sand, with a low tide rising over dark parallel reefs of rock. I know" the writer adds, "that people often struggle to awake from unpleasant dreams, but never heard of any other instance of deliberately changing one."
Source & context
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.
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.154–155; PDF pages 166–167; original scan leaves 170–171. 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.154–155; PDF pages 166–167; original scan leaves 170–171
The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.
Whitespace/linewrap normalization, witnessed end-of-line dehyphenation, and listed scan-verified OCR repairs only. No dream narrative, person, event, translation or stylistic rewrite added.
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