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Harriet Tubman1840s, before and during her escape; published 1869

Harriet Tubman's dreams of flying to freedom

Before she escaped slavery, Tubman dreamed of flying over fields and rivers to a line she could not cross, until women in white reached out and pulled her over.

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O sonho

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Harriet Tubman told her biographer that before her escape she dreamed again and again of a line, with green fields and flowers on the other side and women dressed in white stretching out their arms to her. In the early dreams she always fell before she could reach them.

In another dream, told to a Boston newspaper, she flew over fields, towns, rivers and mountains, looking down on them like a bird, until she came to a great fence or river that she had no strength to cross. Then the women in white put out their arms and pulled her across. She said that when she did escape, she recognised places from these dreams, and some of the people who helped her.

De onde vem a história

Tubman escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1849 and returned many times to lead others north. As a teenager she had been struck on the head with a heavy weight, and for the rest of her life she had sudden spells of deep sleep and vivid dreams and visions, which she understood as messages from God.

Our main source is Sarah Bradford's Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869), written from Tubman's own telling to raise money for her. Bradford rendered her speech in dialect and sometimes in her own words, so we paraphrase.

Como foi interpretado

História

For Tubman, dreams and visions were part of her faith and of how she made life-and-death decisions on the road. The historian Kate Clifford Larson connects the spells and visions to her head injury, while stressing that Tubman's own religious understanding of them shaped everything she did.

Pesquisa

Flying dreams are among the most commonly reported typical dreams, and dreams about a barrier you cannot cross are familiar to many people living under constraint. Hers read almost as a map of her waking situation: freedom visible, the border deadly, and help coming from others.

Perguntas para seus próprios sonhos

  1. When you fly in dreams, where are you trying to get to?
  2. Is there a line in your life that you can see across but not yet cross?
  3. Who are the people who might pull you over it?

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Fontes

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  1. Sarah H. Bradford (1869). Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. Auburn, NY: W. J. Moses.

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    • Local da citação: pp. 15-16 and 79-80 (referência ainda não conferida)

  2. Kate Clifford Larson (2004). Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York: Ballantine Books.

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    • Local da citação: chapter on her injury and faith (referência ainda não conferida)

  3. Tore A. Nielsen, Antonio L. Zadra, Valérie Simard, Sébastien Saucier, Philippe Stenstrom, Carlyle Smith, Don Kuiken (2003). The typical dreams of Canadian university students. Dreaming 13(4): 211-235.

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    • Local da citação: typical dream themes, including flying (referência ainda não conferida)

    Survey of how many people report having had common dream themes (being chased, falling, teeth, flying, exams, nakedness and others) at least once.

  4. G. William Domhoff (2003). The Scientific Study of Dreams: Neural Networks, Cognitive Development, and Content Analysis. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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    • Local da citação: continuity hypothesis (referência ainda não conferida)