Historical reported dream · English · original published report
Mice and beetles in the dining room
Anonymous historical child
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed p. 112
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous girl, eleven, in the book’s blind-school cohort
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I dreamt I was having a bath when one of our matrons told me to go into the dining-room to get a doll and pram for one of the children. She told me that I need not put my shoes and stockings on, so I went into the dining-room, and I was so frightened because I thought I saw a lot of mice and beetles running after me, and I thought they were biting me. And I was crying and screaming and I said I would not go into the dining-room again at night. When I woke up there were tears on my pillow where I had been crying.
Source & context
The child’s printed visual language is retained without endorsing the compiler’s disability generalizations. 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, eleven, in the book’s blind-school cohort), in C. W. Kimmins (compiler), Children’s Dreams (Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), Printed p. 112. 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.
No exact dream date inferred from relative dates, historical collection periods or later-event claims; publication year is not dream date.
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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.
Source locator and text provenance
Printed p. 112
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Content notes
- Dream peril
Connections in the Loom
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