Historical dream account · English · published source text
The traveller kept ashore
John Aubrey
The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams (1869) · Original 1869 edition, printed pp. 383, 384
Dreamer identified by the source: Governor at Dover (unnamed)
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When Doctor Harvey, one of the Physicians’ College in London, being a young man, went to travel towards Padua, he went to Dover, with several others, and showed his pass, as the rest did, to the Governor there. The Governor told him that he must not go, but he must keep him prisoner. The Doctor desired to know ‘ for what reason ? how he had transgressed ? ’ ‘ Well, it was his will to have it so.’ The pacquet-boat hoisted sail in the evening, which was very clear, and the Doctor’s companions in it. There ensued a terrible storm, and the pacquet-boat and all the passengers were drowned. The next day the sad news was brought to Dover. The Doctor was unknown to the Governor, both by name and face; but the night before the Governor had a perfect vision in a dream of Doctor Harvey, who came to pass over to Calais ; and that he had a warning to stop him. This the Governor told to the Doctor the next day. The Doctor was a pious, good man, and has several times directed this story to some of my acquaintance.
Source & context
Historical published account of a recalled sleep dream, not a verified prediction or contemporary community submission. One complete separately narrated case; source explanation and subsequent unrelated cases excluded. Paired/recurring episodes remain together. These are historically published claimed recollections. Source claims of fulfilment/causation are not independently established facts, predictions or medical evidence. But better known to us as the discoverer of the circulation of the blood.
John Aubrey, Miscellanies, as quoted by Frank Seafield, The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams, second edition, revised (London: Lockwood & Co., 1869), printed pp. 383, 384. Source: Wellcome Collection. Dreamer and anthology compiler are credited separately. Descriptive title and navigation themes added by Synastry.
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Original 1869 edition, printed pp. 383, 384
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Content notes
- Drowning
- Death
Connections in the Loom
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