Historical dream account · English · machine translation
The imaginary shop on the rue Castiglione
L.-F.-Alfred Maury
Le sommeil et les rêves (1861) · Original 1861 edition, printed pp. 94, 95
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A few years ago, I see myself in a dream in an imaginary shop on the rue Castiglione: I recognize it as one where I had previously made purchases; I speak with the shopkeeper, who recognizes me as one of his customers. On awakening, the image of this shop remained so strongly engraved in my thoughts that for a moment I believed I had transported myself in a dream to a very real shop; I then recalled perfectly the earlier visit I had made there, and yet this memory was surrounded by circumstances whose absurdity revealed a pure dream. A little reflection was enough, moreover, to convince me that the shop was wholly imaginary, and I did not find it in the street where I had imagined it.
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La boutique imaginaire de la rue Castiglione
Il y a quelques années, je me vois en songe dans une boutique imaginaire de la rue Castiglione : je reconnais celle où j’avais fait antérieurement des emplettes; j’y parle au marchand qui retrouve en moi une de ses pratiques. A mon réveil, l’image de cette boutique demeurait si fortement gravée dans ma pensée, que je crus un instant m’être transporté en rêve dans une boutique très-réelle; je me retraçais alors parfaitement la visite antérieure que j’y avais faite, et cependant ce souvenir était entouré de circonstances dont l’absurdité dénotait un pur rêve; un peu de réflexion me suffit d’ailleurs pour me convaincre que la boutique était complètement chimérique, et je ne la retrouvai pas dans la rue où je l’avais imaginée.
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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. 94, 95. Source: Wellcome Collection. Titles and navigation themes are editorial labels, not source headings.
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Original 1861 edition, printed pp. 94, 95
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