Historical reported dream · English · original published report
A shining figure named Peace
Anonymous historical child writer
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed p. 86
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous girl, 12
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I had the following dream on the night of 10th November, the night before the "Cease Fire" Armistice was signed.
The Kaiser and his chancellors were seated at a long table, debating whether to sign the armistice or not. The Kaiser sat twirling his moustache angrily. He glanced round the table at the assembled people. Suddenly a flash of lightning lit up the room, then almost at the same time a terrific crash of thunder burst upon them. The Kaiser went pale. Then his favourite Chancellor spoke : " The delay will do no good ; sign it, Sire." The Kaiser glanced at his friend, picked up his pen and signed the armistice. The wind outside stopped, the rain ceased and through the clouds floated a white figure, with a shining crown, and on it was written " Peace." It floated through the open window, hovered over the assembled company and disappeared. The sun came out and shone on the Kaiser and his men.
The Kaiser stood up; "The audience is at an end," he said. The Chancellors stood up and silently walked out, leaving the Kaiser to his meditations.
Then I awoke.
Source & context
The source explicitly says10November, night before CeaseFire armistice. Do not infer a recorded timestamp or claim this dreamed scene caused/predicted the real armistice. 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 p. 86. 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 p. 86
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Content notes
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