Historical reported dream · English · original published report
The dog who asked for a conversation
Anonymous historical child
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed pp. 112–113
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous girl, thirteen, in the book’s blind-school cohort
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I dreamt I was playing in the playground with a long rope. My little sister and big sister were up the other end of the playground. In came a big black dog and came up to me. I was frightened so I ran up to my sister and the dog followed me. Then we walked up the playground to go into the school. The dog came up to me and said, " How do you do, Annie ? " But I did not answer. He asked me again and again, but I would not answer him. So he went round to my little sister and said, " How do you do, Winnie ? " She said, "Quite well, thank you." He said, "Annie will not speak to me." When we went into the school we shut the doors so that the dog could not get in. But the dog pulled them open again. Then the dog asked me to sit down with him to have a talk. But I would not, so he asked my sister Winnie, and she went and sat down with him. There was a lady and the cook and my sister talking about what they could do with him. Then the lady said, "Cut off his head." Then we said, " Hush, because he can hear you." The cook went to get a knife, but the dog escaped. That night when I was in bed the girls said, " There is a big brown dog come in the front gate." It was night, but all the girls were sitting up in bed eating their dinner. Then the dog came up to me and started jumping up to me. Then I jumped up in bed and woke up.
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All printed dialogue and shifting time/colour are source words; do not infer a modern identity from first names. Kimmins compiled anonymous historical child reports. The youngest reports were mostly individually told to head mistresses, with a few seven-year-old written accounts; this source does not identify the recording route for each example. Kimmins admits memory gaps, filling in, omissions, fusion with waking material and secondary elaboration. Ages and historical school descriptions are source labels, not modern diagnoses or proof of authenticity. The compiler acknowledges secondary elaboration and fusion with waking material; this is not an independently authenticated untouched child-written log.
Anonymous historical child’s reported dream (Anonymous girl, thirteen, in the book’s blind-school cohort), in C. W. Kimmins (compiler), Children’s Dreams (Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), Printed pp. 112–113. Original English historical printed account via Internet Archive. Editorial title and navigation metadata added by Synastry; original source wording, uncertainty and paragraph divisions retained after scan-confirmed OCR repair. Not a modern Synastry community submission.
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Original English historical reported dream printed in Children’s Dreams (Longmans, Green and Co., 1920). Original publication term expired in the United States. Anonymous child dreamers and their individual oral/written recording routes are distinct from Kimmins’s role as compiler. No modern translation, introduction or new edition is copied. Public archive access is not a new licence; no blanket worldwide rights warranty or modern scan-asset licence is asserted.
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Printed pp. 112–113
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Content notes
- Dream peril
- Dream violence
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