Historical reported dream · English · original published report
Motors, an aeroplane and an Australian business
Anonymous historical child writer
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed pp. 96–97
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous boy, 14
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My last dream was of motors, motor bicycles and aeroplanes, all of which I thought I possessed. I went into business with the idea of becoming like Selfridges and to possess everything. I first had a motor bicycle, which I bought very cheaply, but thought a motor better, so I bought one. I always carried my motor bicycle at the back of my car. One day I met a nice young lady but before long forgot about her. My business becoming great I bought an aeroplane. I had many trips in my aeroplane, the greatest being to Australia. I started from London and while above sea I saw a U boat and many other ships. While in Australia I set up another business and at last became a millionaire. I asked my mother to come across but she would not, so I went to her. Until this time I did not possess a house but after trouble I saw a beautiful large mansion and bought it. Having nothing to do I became a doctor and became renowned for my being able to cure the influenza.
Source & context
Complete reported dream includes imagined adult business and doctor roles. Claimed cure of influenza is dream fantasy, not health advice. 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, 14), in C. W. Kimmins (compiler), Children’s Dreams (London/New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), Printed pp. 96–97. 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. 96–97
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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