Historical dream account · English · 1918 published translation
Searching for a way out of the garden
Emanuel Swedenborg
Journal of Dreams and Spiritual Experiences in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Forty-Four (1918) · Numbered sections 019; printed pages 14–15; night labelled March 24–25, 1744; 1918 Odhner translation
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I was in a garden containing many fine beds, one of which I desired to own, but I looked about to see if there was any road to walk out; I also seemed to see it, and thought of another: there was one there who was picking away a heap of invisible vermin and killed them; he said they were bedbugs which some person had carried thither and thrown in, infesting those who were there. I did not see them, but some other little insect, which I dropped on a white linen cloth beside a woman: it was the impurity which ought to be rooted out of me.
Night of March 24–25, 1744
Source & context
A historical sleep-dream account in the 1918 Odhner translation. The author’s own religious interpretations are preserved as part of his record, not presented as verified supernatural events or present-day clinical advice. This is not a modern Synastry community submission.
Emanuel Swedenborg, Journal of Dreams and Spiritual Experiences in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Forty-Four, translated from Swedish by C.Th.Odhner (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania: Academy Book Room,1918), sections 019, pp. 14–15. Historical sleep dream; the author’s own interpretation is retained.
The source labels a night spanning two calendar dates; no single exact event date is asserted.1744 is the journal year; 1918 is this translation’s publication year.
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Public Domain Mark is a status marker, not a new license grant. Original author died 1772; translator died 1918. United States 1918 publication term expired. No universal jurisdiction warranty.
Source locator and text provenance
Numbered sections 019; printed pages 14–15; night labelled March 24–25, 1744; 1918 Odhner translation
The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.
Whitespace/punctuation spacing normalized; printed line-end word hyphens joined; numbered headings, page furniture and translator footnotes excluded. Explicit scan-verified OCR repairs only. Full selected account/continuation retained; English editorial navigation title added. This is the existing1918 translation, not a newly generated translation.
Exact raw OCR character/byte spans, scan pages, source hashes and correction replay are retained in the accompanying research manifest. A continuation is not counted as a new dream.
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