Historical reported dream · English · original published report
Blankets in the gymnasium after the fire
Anonymous historical child writer
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed p. 114
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous boy, 14
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One night I dreamed that our school was on fire. The bells rang all over the building telling us that something was wrong. The master came in and told us all to keep calm and get dressed quickly. When we were dressed we got our partners and went down to the lawn.
Then the fire brigade came and they asked some of the boys to help them to hold the water pipes. Then we were taken into the gymnasium so that we should not take cold. The gas was turned off for safety. The fire lasted about three hours. The firemen went away but we could not sleep in the house. Some blankets had been salved so we had one each and went to sleep in the gymnasium.
Source & context
Full bounded dream narrative ends with safety/sleeping elsewhere. It is not an actual school emergency report. 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 p. 114. 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 p. 114
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
- Dream fire
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