Historical reported dream · English · original published report
The feast that vanished before I could taste it
Anonymous historical child writer
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed pp. 67–68
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous boy, 12
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Yesterday while I was sleeping in bed, I suddenly found that I was walking down the stairs of my house into the kitchen. I walked slowly into the kitchen, where to my surprise, I saw a large table covered with delicious eatables, such as Christmas pudding and turkey and meat. I went upstairs and in my bedroom instead of a bed there stood another large table covered with a snow white cloth, and in the centre was a pudding with holly stuck in it. I went to cut a piece off for myself, and to my disappointment I found it had vanished, so I had to go without. Many children sat round the table and of course every one wanted something to eat. Soon as they had finished one pudding I gave them another. All the walls were hung with holly and Christmas chains. All the children were enjoying themselves very much all except me, who was not having anything to eat. I tried to take something off the dishes but everything disappeared from my sight. I went downstairs to find my mother but she was nowhere to be found. I searched everywhere but I could not find her. I suddenly slipped over a piece of orange peel and bumped my head against a table and then I woke up to find I had been dreaming in bed all the time, which made me very disappointed.
Source & context
No diagnosis of deprivation inferred from the dream. 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. 67–68. 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. 67–68
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