Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-05-05
DREAMS.

Rapidly of ideas in Dreams.-Two
friends agreed to go on walking expe.
dillon. one Of whom promised to call the
other at an early hour the following NOR
ming. He did so, but in vain, as his
friend fell asleep again. He then dream.
ed that his father put several questions
to him as to the state Of his health-was
alarmed at his replies, and sent mes
senger for surgeon; that two medical
gentlemen attended-put the usual ques-
ton and ordered him a cold shower bath
--he awoke with the shock, and found
that his friend, tired with waiting, had
dashed basin full of cold water in bis
face. 1t was evident that what to the
dreamer seemed the concluding circum.
stance, was in truth the suggestcr of the
whole series Of ideal events. The mind
had called up all this train of thought to
account for the sensation produced by
the water. Several d cams illustrative
of this point were related. There was
something analogous to this in our wa
king hours. A single word would call
up instantaneously long series of by
gone events, and in a everie our fancies
were often as ridiculous and IS rapid in
their passage through the mind as in
dream. Generally speaking, however,
our waking thoughts succeed each other
less rapidly than the ideas which make
up our dreams. This might be accoun-
ted for in the first place by the absence
of sensations, and secondly by the ab.
sence Of that 'regulative faculty which,
when awake, we exercise over our
thoughts. In sleep, the flow ofthoughts
was as rapid and irregular as the motion
of mechanic without its regulator.
| A Dream related By Sir w. s'eon-
A gentleman in Scotland was prosecu-
ted for arrears of tthes. He had stroug
suspicious that his father had purchased
these tthes of the lay improprietors, but
after a long and frulless search, he could
discover no record of the purchase, and
determined 10 go to Edinburg the next
day and effect the best compromise he
could. He went to bed and dreamed
that his father appeared to him
and told him that lie tad purchased
the tjthes in questions; and that
the writings were in the hands of a
Mr.. A, writer Of Inverness. Should
Mr.. A. have forgotten the transaction
continued the paternal shade, you may
remind him that when came to pay
his account, there was a difficulty in get
ting change for a Portugal piece Of gold
and that we were forced to drink out the
balance in tavern Mr.. II. on ava
king in the morning, determined to go to
Inverness to see Mr.. A. The old wri-
ter did not at first remember the trans
action, but at the mention Of the Portu-
gal piece, the whole transaction return.
to his memory-immediatc search was
made. and the papers found by which
Mr.. II. gained his cause. Sir Walter
was satisfied of the truth Of this relation
but did not think the law of nature was
suspended to save NJ. r. a gum of mo.
ney. The most probable solution Of the
matter was, that he had heard the old
gentleman tell The story some days after
dinner; that the young gentleman al
the time paid a dreamy attention TO it,
as young men will do to the old remn-
iscencics, and that in his dream the mat.
ter had flashed upon his mind. 1t was
evident that Mr.. R. had heard some
thing OF the matter, for he said he had n
strong feeling that the tithes were not
due. We ought to be satisfied, then,
there was nothing miraculous in this
case.
A MURDERER DISCOVERED TItRouGlI
A DREAM.-Mr. Alexander instanced a
well authenticated dream recorded by
Mr.. Ward, in his Human Life There
really appeared more than fabulous co
incidence in this. 1t happened' said
one of the characters in Mr.. Wards
book, (whether Mr.. Ward was himself
the narrator, the lecturer did not know,)
some thirty or more years ago, when
used to attend as grand juryman al
Lancaster Wemust abridge the sto-
4 ry. There had been sad murder com.
mitted on ain amiable young man named
Horrocks. He was found robbed, and
his head beatcnin with bludgeons. The
] murder excited more Ihnn common SYM
palhy, and for many months vigilant
search was made for the perpetrators,
i A uarticillar friendoffhe murdered man