Historical reported dream · English · original published report
Leaving the gold mine before the plot
Anonymous historical child writer
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed pp. 100–101
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous boy, 14
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I dreamt that I went to live in Australia, and while I was there a gold mine was found, and crowds of people flocked to the mine and I was with them. When we had been waiting there a long time a big wealthy man came out whom I guessed was the manager. He was dressed in a big tweed suit and a gold watch and chain on his waistcoat. He walked about the men, picking out the men he needed and I was one of them. When he had got our names we began to build our huts, two men to each hut. Next day we went down into the mine with our picks and shovels and began to work. When we came to the gold it was taken up to the top and stored in a little hut. When we had finished the day's work my companion says to me, " We'll get some of that gold and clear off to-night and we will take it to my home." That night we got some gold and took it to his home ; while I was there I heard him say to his wife, " We'll do away with this chap." So in the night I got up, took the gold and made tracks for home.
Source & context
The theft and overheard threat are dream events, not allegations or a criminal history. 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. 100–101. 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. 100–101
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
- Theft in dream
- Death threat
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