Historical dream account · English · machine translation
The wine of Orviette
L.-F.-Alfred Maury
Le sommeil et les rêves (1861) · Original 1861 edition, printed pp. 128
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Eighth observation. A drop of water is poured onto my forehead. I dream that I am in Italy, that I am very hot, and that I am drinking wine from Orviette.
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Le vin d’Orviette
Huitième observation. On me verse une goutte d’eau sur le front. Je rêve que je suis en Italie, que j’ai très-chaud, et que je bois du vin d’Orviette.
Source & context
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. One of Maury’s own numbered recalled sleep-dream observations, introduced on pp. 125–126. The reported stimulus and dream are retained as historical narrative, not an independently verified causal or clinical finding.
L.-F.-Alfred Maury, Le sommeil et les rêves (Paris: Didier et cie., 1861), original French text, printed pp. 128. 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.
Source locator and text provenance
Original 1861 edition, printed pp. 128
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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Content notes
- Alcohol reference
Connections in the Loom
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