Historical reported dream · English · original published report
A rescue in Hyde Park
Anonymous historical child writer
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed pp. 61–62
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous boy, 10
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I dreamt I was out for a walk in Hyde Park and as I was walking down the Row, I saw a man walking across it, while a horse thundered down upon him. At once I could see that the poor man was blind, so I did not hesitate, but rushed out under the rails to try and save the man. Acting under the impulse of the moment, I shouted to the rider of the horse, who tried in vain to stop the animal, which still rushed on, so I caught hold of the blind man and dragged him to safety. How surprised I was, when I found I had saved one of the millionaires. He overwhelmed me with thanks and invited me to dinner next day, where his wife and children nearly smothered me with thanks. After dinner was over, and we had a little chat, it was time for me to go, he gave me an envelope which he told me not to open till I got home. When I was alone, I opened it, and found a cheque for a million pounds inside. So ended my dream, which unfortunately was not true, for I heard the alarm clock ringing, so I knew that it was a dream. But after all it had a happy ending, which some dreams have not, but mine had.
Source & context
Reported rescue and million-pound reward occur only in a dream; no verified historical event claimed. Published historical reported dream: the compiler acknowledges secondary elaboration and fusion with waking material; this is not an independently authenticated untouched manuscript.
Anonymous child writer’s reported dream (Anonymous boy, 10), in C. W. Kimmins (compiler), Children’s Dreams (London/New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), Printed pp. 61–62. Original English University of Toronto/Robarts copy via Internet Archive. Editorial title and navigation metadata added by Synastry; original source wording, uncertainty and paragraph/section divisions retained after scan-confirmed OCR repairs. Historical published report, not a modern Synastry community submission.
No exact dream date inferred from last night/Friday/Sunday. Sourcep18 says most main-school reports collected November–December1918; industrial-school reports March–April1919; deaf/blind-school reports June1919. Collection period is not necessarily dream date.
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Original English reported dreams printed in Children’s Dreams (Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), compiled by C. W. Kimmins. The original 1920 published text has an expired-US-publication basis, corroborated by the archive’s US status metadata. The individual child writers are unnamed; the compiler is not represented as each dream’s author or dreamer, and his lifetime is not substituted for anonymous authorship terms. No modern translation or new edition is copied. Public archive access is not a new licence; no blanket worldwide rights warranty is asserted.
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Printed pp. 61–62
The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.
Source-scan-confirmed OCR letters/punctuation corrected; physical page/line furniture and word-division hyphens normalized as documented by the exact reversible ledger. Original paragraph/section divisions restored. Source spelling, child grammar, uncertainty and dream-to-waking transitions retained. No generated scene, ending or modern translation inserted into the narrative.
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Content notes
- Dream peril
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