Historical reported dream · English · original published report
The shoes with opposite prices
Anonymous historical child writer
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed pp. 81–82
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous girl, 15
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I was seated in a boot shop, which somehow seemed something like our kitchen, and yet it had all the fittings of a shop where new boots were sold, and others mended. My father and mother were both there, and I was asking to see some fancy indoor shoes.
The first pair the man brought me were of black glace kid, with patent leather toecaps and high heels. They were similar to what are called court shoes, having no straps. I put them on and they fitted me perfectly, so I asked the price of them, and was very much astonished to hear that they were five pounds four and sixpence. I told the shop-keeper that they were too much, and inquired if he had something a little cheaper. He then brought a pair of rather shabby black brocaded ones, also with high heels.
These also fitted me, and again I asked the price, which went to the opposite extreme, for they were only twopence halfpenny.
I do not know whether I had these or not, for my dream suddenly ended, but I remember that both pairs had rubber heels, and I distinctly heard my father say that one of the pairs was to have the rubber taken off and a piece of leather put on instead.
This dream almost seemed real, it was so vivid. I can even remember that one of the black brocade shoes had a tiny darn on one toe.
Source & context
Complete first report, including its expressly sudden ending and waking recollections. The author then quotes a separate last-night blue-satin-shoe dream, selected separately. No missing ending supplied. 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 girl, 15), in C. W. Kimmins (compiler), Children’s Dreams (London/New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), Printed pp. 81–82. 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. 81–82
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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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