Historical dream account · English · machine translation
The debtor who becomes a friend
L.-F.-Alfred Maury
Le sommeil et les rêves (1861) · Original 1861 edition, printed pp. 90
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Another time, fearing a small financial loss, I became, in a dream, the plaything of adventures that had their starting point in this concern. I met my debtor; he looked sad and sullen and was trying to avoid me. In truth, I was not in a dream: it resembled reality too closely. But here is where the dream begins: his face changes, and I recognize in him one of my friends. “You take me,” he says, “for your debtor. I know him and will speak to him.”
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Le débiteur qui devient un ami
Une autre fois, craignant de faire une petite perte d’argent, je fus, en rêve, le jouet d’aventures qui avaient leur point de départ dans cette préoccupation. Je rencontrai mon débiteur, il avait l’air triste et maussade; il cherchait à m’éviter. Je n’étais point en vérité dans le rêve, cela ressemblait trop à la réalité. Mais voici le rêve qui commence : sa figure se transforme et je reconnais en lui un de mes amis : Vous me prenez, dit-il, pour votre débiteur, je le connais et je lui parlerai.
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English machine translation. The original account, source credit and publication terms remain available.
Named historical author’s own recalled sleep-dream; not a modern community submission or invented scene. A historical recollection from Maury’s 1861 book. The source’s interpretation of memory or sensory incorporation is not independently verified by Synastry.
L.-F.-Alfred Maury, Le sommeil et les rêves (Paris: Didier et cie., 1861), original French text, printed pp. 90. Source: Wellcome Collection. Titles and navigation themes are editorial labels, not source headings.
The publication year is not the dream date. No exact dream date or present-day person location is inferred. Dates printed in the narrative remain source wording.
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The original French 1861 edition is identified as public domain by Wellcome’s catalogue and IIIF manifest. Public Domain Mark identifies status; it is not a new license grant. No modern translation is used.
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Original 1861 edition, printed pp. 90
The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.
Selected complete recalled account boundaries; omitted adjacent theory, other accounts, page headings and footnotes. Joined typesetter line wraps, preserving printed compound hyphens; paragraph boundaries retained. Applied only the separately listed scan-verified OCR repairs. Added a descriptive editorial title; retained original French wording without translation or narrative expansion.
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