Strawberries, huckleberries, omelette

Vienna, Austria · c. 1897

During the night which followed upon this day of hunger, she was heard to call excitedly in her sleep: “Anna Feud, strawberry, huckleberry, omelette, pap!”

Original text — The Interpretation of Dreams (trans. A. A. Brill), Sigmund Freud; trans. A. A. Brill

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Source: The Interpretation of Dreams (trans. A. A. Brill) — Sigmund Freud; trans. A. A. Brill, 1913. Ch. III
Rights: Public domain (US)
Record type: Research case
Place: Vienna, Austria · Austrian
Date: c. 1897
Uncertainty: Low — Sleep-talk of Freud’s 19-month-old daughter Anna.
Imagery: Child · Food
Feelings: Joy · Longing

How traditions have read this kind of dream

Psychological

Storms, mountains and gardens in dreams are often traced to the day’s impressions or the sleeper’s physical state — Ellis connected a dreamed cyclone to a windy night.

Ellis (1911), ch. IV

Mythological

Sacred mountains and world-trees connect earth and sky in many traditions, from Olympus to Yggdrasil to Mount Kunlun.

Comparative mythology

Chinese traditions

Landscape — mountains, rivers, mist — is the setting of countless Chinese dream journeys, where the dreamer’s wandering mirrors the shan-shui painting tradition.

Li Bai, Dreaming of Tianmu

These are cultural lenses, not a diagnosis.

Dreams that share its images

A melon sweeter than any Luoyang, China · c. 60 CE (as told)
Last night I dreamt we were at Simony Hut Aussee, Austria · summer 1896
Glass after glass of champagne England · before 1911
I could make the summer Zurich, Switzerland · c. 1910
Where she last saw him Vienna, Austria · c. 1900
A mother praying for a father who never returns Tokyo, Japan · 1908