Historical dream account · English · original text
The celestial plains without an end
Frederick Greenwood
Imagination in Dreams and Their Study (1894) · Printed pages 84, 85; OCR lines 2724–2745
Dreamer identified by the source: Unnamed woman
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An illustration of what I mean came into the experience of a lady who dreamed one night that she was in heaven, but in no new scene. It was the heaven of the old Italian painters. The celestial plains lay before her, and, viewing them, her sight was carried over so vast a space, her eyes saw into such immensities of distance, that the infinite has been ever since far more comprehensible to her than it was before. Her vision had travelled into it; and the memory of the voyage remaining with her, it enabled her to think of eternity also with a diminished sense of frustration.
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A historical dream account recorded by Frederick Greenwood in Imagination in Dreams and Their Study (1894). The recorder and any separately identified dreamer are distinguished. The prose was checked against the printed page scans; historical claims belong to the source and are not presented as verified events. This is not a Synastry community submission.
Frederick Greenwood, Imagination in Dreams and Their Study (London: John Lane; New York: Macmillan, 1894). Digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries via Internet Archive. Original English text; editorial descriptive title and documented OCR normalization by Synastry.
1894 is the publication year, not a supplied date of the dream. Any date mentioned in the narrative remains the source wording.
Original English text published in 1894; Frederick Greenwood died in 1909. Internet Archive identifies this edition as NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT (United States). No modern translation or editorial additions are included. Public Domain Mark denotes status, not an exclusive grant.
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Printed pages 84, 85; OCR lines 2724–2745
The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.
Original prose retained with documented OCR corrections, line-wrap normalization and page-furniture removal. Editorial title added. Surrounding theoretical discussion omitted. Passage boundaries and all narrative events checked against the 1894 page scans.
Typesetter line-end word divisions normalized; lexical hyphens retained. Quotation marks identifying the outer published architect quotation and a numbered footnote marker are omitted; speaking characters’ quotation marks remain. Full raw spans and page images retained in source review evidence.
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