Historical reported dream · English · original published report
A peace mission and a runaway motor
Anonymous historical child writer
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed pp. 62–63
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous girl, 12
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I dreamt I was elected M.P. for Fulham. Lloyd George decided to send me out to Germany to try and persuade the Kaiser to give up fighting. I do not know how I got to Germany. I was suddenly there. The Kaiser took a fancy to me, and I lived at his palace, and was educated with his children. There were four girls and three boys, and they all dressed in brown holland. There were two other children living with us, a small French boy and an English girl. One day the Kaiser took us for a drive in his motor, and as we were going up a very steep hill, I asked the Kaiser to give up fighting. He was so amazed that he let go of the steering-wheel, and the car slid backwards down the hill and shot us through the palace windows into the dancing hall where the dancing mistress was waiting to give a lesson. Presently the Kaiser called us and told us that he must fly into Holland and that the German fleet was going to surrender. I then escaped in a submarine, and woke up when it bumped against the shores of England.
Source & context
Imagined M.P. appointment, the Kaiser and the submarine belong to a1918-era dream; no real appointment or diplomatic event asserted. Published historical reported dream: the compiler acknowledges secondary elaboration and fusion with waking material; this is not an independently authenticated untouched manuscript.
Anonymous child writer’s reported dream (Anonymous girl, 12), in C. W. Kimmins (compiler), Children’s Dreams (London/New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), Printed pp. 62–63. Original English University of Toronto/Robarts copy via Internet Archive. Editorial title and navigation metadata added by Synastry; original source wording, uncertainty and paragraph/section divisions retained after scan-confirmed OCR repairs. Historical published report, not a modern Synastry community submission.
No exact dream date inferred from last night/Friday/Sunday. Sourcep18 says most main-school reports collected November–December1918; industrial-school reports March–April1919; deaf/blind-school reports June1919. Collection period is not necessarily dream date.
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Original English reported dreams printed in Children’s Dreams (Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), compiled by C. W. Kimmins. The original 1920 published text has an expired-US-publication basis, corroborated by the archive’s US status metadata. The individual child writers are unnamed; the compiler is not represented as each dream’s author or dreamer, and his lifetime is not substituted for anonymous authorship terms. No modern translation or new edition is copied. Public archive access is not a new licence; no blanket worldwide rights warranty is asserted.
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Printed pp. 62–63
The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.
Source-scan-confirmed OCR letters/punctuation corrected; physical page/line furniture and word-division hyphens normalized as documented by the exact reversible ledger. Original paragraph/section divisions restored. Source spelling, child grammar, uncertainty and dream-to-waking transitions retained. No generated scene, ending or modern translation inserted into the narrative.
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Content notes
- Historical war context
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