Historical reported dream · English · original published report
Rats and the cat at the fireplace
Anonymous historical child writer
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed pp. 111–112
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous boy, 11
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One night I had a dream. I thought I saw a great rat making a large hole in our bedroom floor. When he had made a hole large enough for him to get through he called six other rats. I seemed to imagine they were going to take refuge in the fireplace. Then I thought I saw a cat come into the room. As soon as the rats heard the cat they fled away. Then I woke to find it was morning.
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Anonymous child writer’s reported dream (Anonymous boy, 11), in C. W. Kimmins (compiler), Children’s Dreams (London/New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), Printed pp. 111–112. 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. 111–112
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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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