Historical reported dream · English · original published report
The stolen paper and the prisoners
Anonymous historical child
Children’s Dreams (1920) · Printed pp. 110–111
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous girl, sixteen, described by the historical source as deaf from birth
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Last night I dreamt that I went for a walk and I saw a big aeroplane and the airmen went to a shop to buy something. Then I went into the aeroplane and I flew straight from Oxford Street to Berlin. I saw a lot of Germans marching about, and I went down to the ground. One of them was dead and I took the German's coat, trousers, cap and gun and wore them. I saw the Germans drinking beer and I went into a big building, where I saw a lot of British soldiers in the prison. They were very unhappy because they wanted to eat and drink. Then two of the Germans went to sleep behind the prison and I took a pair of boots and I took the guns and a big key and I told the British soldiers that I was an English girl. They were very glad. When it was dark I opened the door and they followed me, and I gave them the Germans' horses. They had all gone except me. Next morning the Germans were very surprised and they told the Kaiser about the prisoners. Then he was very angry with them. One night I went to a private room and I wanted to find a secret paper. At last I found it in the Kaiser's case. Suddenly the Germans saw me and caught me, but I ate the piece of paper. Then they took me to the Kaiser and he was very angry with me and put me in the prison. The British soldiers never heard about me and they thought that the Germans had caught me. Next day the Kaiser told the Germans to shoot me because I ate the secret paper ; then they shot me. The Allies captured the Germans but they could not find me. One of the soldiers found me in a room and carried me to a motor and sent me to the hospital in France and the doctor said that I was a brave girl because I ate the secret paper.
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Complete printed report. Later compiler summaries on p.115 are not added as new reports; identity with this printed report is not established. Kimmins compiled anonymous historical child reports. The youngest reports were mostly individually told to head mistresses, with a few seven-year-old written accounts; this source does not identify the recording route for each example. Kimmins admits memory gaps, filling in, omissions, fusion with waking material and secondary elaboration. Ages and historical school descriptions are source labels, not modern diagnoses or proof of authenticity. The compiler acknowledges secondary elaboration and fusion with waking material; this is not an independently authenticated untouched child-written log.
Anonymous historical child’s reported dream (Anonymous girl, sixteen, described by the historical source as deaf from birth), in C. W. Kimmins (compiler), Children’s Dreams (Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), Printed pp. 110–111. Original English historical printed account via Internet Archive. Editorial title and navigation metadata added by Synastry; original source wording, uncertainty and paragraph divisions retained after scan-confirmed OCR repair. Not a modern Synastry community submission.
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Original English historical reported dream printed in Children’s Dreams (Longmans, Green and Co., 1920). Original publication term expired in the United States. Anonymous child dreamers and their individual oral/written recording routes are distinct from Kimmins’s role as compiler. No modern translation, introduction or new edition is copied. Public archive access is not a new licence; no blanket worldwide rights warranty or modern scan-asset licence is asserted.
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Printed pp. 110–111
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Content notes
- Historical war context
- Dream peril
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