Historical reported dream · English · original published report
A cathedral hotel and three shining stars
Anonymous historical dreamer
Dream Psychology (1917) · Printed pp. 27–28
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous historical dreamer; identity and recording route not stated
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I was staying in a large hotel on the coast. The hotel is one that I had often seen from the outside, but I have never lived there or even been inside. I was rather perplexed to find that it was really a cathedral that had been adapted to accommodate guests, and was chilly and uncomfortable. The manager was a priest with an ascetic face, and he carried a bell. The bell was the dinner-bell belonging to my old home. He rang the bell at intervals, and then pointed to a tablet on the wall. Some Latin inscription was on it which reminded me of an incident of my early school-days - when the headmaster flung a book at me because I used, in translating some passage, the term ' arable land ' instead of something more poetical. Then I noticed the priest had become rather like the headmaster. He took me by the arm and spoke earnestly to me and pointed to the tablet again. I saw now three shining objects on it, like stars. These merged into one.
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A historical published reported dream quoted in Nicoll’s original1917 clinical/interpretive work. The compiler’s interpretations are personal historical views, not current diagnoses, evidence of treatment efficacy, or scientific/Matrix-Net findings. A complete printed quotation is not independent authentication of the original memory or an untouched manuscript. No modern community submission or distinct-person count is asserted.
Anonymous historical reported dream, in Maurice Nicoll (compiler/physician), Dream Psychology (London: Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1917), Printed pp. 27–28. Original English published quotation via Cornell University Library/Internet Archive. Editorial title, descriptive summary and navigation metadata added by Synastry; source wording and ending retained after scan-confirmed OCR repair.
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Original English historical reported dream printed in Dream Psychology (London: Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1917). Original publication term expired in the United States. Nicoll is the compiler/physician, not asserted to be the anonymous quoted dreamer. Public archive access is not a new licence; no blanket worldwide rights warranty, modern translation rights or modern scan-asset licence is asserted.
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Printed pp. 27–28
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Notes from the historical editor
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Short descriptive English reading (editorial): A coastal hotel is housed in a cold cathedral, where a priest resembling a headmaster points to three stars that merge into one.
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