Historical reported dream · English · original published report
A sweetheart and a wedding motor
Anonymous historical child writer
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed pp. 108–109
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous girl, 15
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I dreamt that I dressed properly and went out for a walk. A nice boy came to me and said, " Would you like to be my sweetheart ? " I said yes, and he took me to the picture palace. Next day he knocked at my door. I opened the door, and shook hands with him and said, " come in." He sat down in the parlour ; I put my hat and coat on and went out for a walk. I said to him, "Do you want some tea with me ?" He said, "Yes, please." We had bread and butter and jam, breakfast biscuits and cakes and tea. I washed the things up and I put on my hat and coat and went out to church about seven o'clock. He asked me, " Would you like to marry me next Sunday?" I said, "Yes, please." He bought some wedding cake with ice on it and a wedding ring. Next Saturday I made a veil for myself. On the wedding day he came home. The motor car came to my house. He took my arm and we went in the motor to church. He gave me a ring and kissed me, and Harry, Mother, Father, and the children.
Source & context
Non-explicit affection and marriage dream. First names are only those printed as dream characters; no surname, address or modern identity added. The writer’s grammar and ending remain as printed. 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. 108–109. 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. 108–109
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.
- Account text SHA-256
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- Source file SHA-256
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Content notes
- Nonexplicit romance
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