Historical reported dream · English · original published report
The fireboat returns to my own window
Anonymous historical child writer
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed pp. 64–65
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous boy, 12
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I was fishing by a river in the country when I saw a young boy fall in the river. Although I could not swim, I jumped in after him. It was rather deep, but somehow I reached the boy. After having reached the boy, everything seemed to fade away. But strange to say, the next instant I found myself on a swift travelling boat, and by my side was the boy I had rescued. Somehow I found out that I was on a fire-boat. The thing that pleased me most was that the boat was going to a fire. Then I saw that the boat was going to my own house. Oh ! how frightened I felt. Then, all of a sudden, I seemed to be in my bed, shouting out "Grandad! the bed's on fire!" Next I seemed to be first burning hot and then ever so cold. Then, in through my window a spurt of water from the hose came all over me. Once more I seemed not to be in bed but on the fire-boat, and in my hands was a hose. There I stood, squirting water into my own bedroom. Then all seemed to get muddled up, and I awoke to see the rain coming in the window, and on to me. Somehow I felt glad that that dream was over, and somehow I seemed to enjoy it.
Source & context
One continuous shifting report with its waking rain ending, not several accounts. 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, 12), in C. W. Kimmins (compiler), Children’s Dreams (London/New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), Printed pp. 64–65. 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.
Source locator and text provenance
Printed pp. 64–65
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 fire
- Dream peril
Connections in the Loom
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