Historical reported dream · English · original published report
The Latin declensions spring from the book
Anonymous historical child writer
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed pp. 84–85
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous girl, 14
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Last Thursday I went to bed thinking of nothing but the dreadful to-morrow. It was our Latin examination ! It is not that I do not like Latin ; on the contrary, I am very fond of it, but when I thought of the awful exam, looming ahead, I felt as if I did not know anything at all. The next thing I remember was seeing my fatal red Latin book open and out of its leaves sprang innumerable little men ; they did not look like anything I had ever seen before ; they were pixies.
The only thing my pixies seemed to do was to frisk about in a most bewildering fashion, but at last I understood ; they were my Latin declensions. After a little while they were all arranged in a neat and trim order, and there was my Latin book.
But, alas ! just as I was getting on so beautifully with my unexpected Latin revision, at a sudden sharp order from the pronoun "hic" all my pixies jumped up into the air, and I awoke to the plain fact that it was Friday and the dreaded day had arrived.
Source & context
Entire report includes the waking examination worry and dream-to-waking transition. Latin pronoun to be checked against scan. 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, 14), in C. W. Kimmins (compiler), Children’s Dreams (London/New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), Printed pp. 84–85. 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. 84–85
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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