Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-04-08
REMARKABLE DREAMS.

The Boston Courier relates remarkable
dream, by a young lady of Boston few
weeks ago. 1t seems that she was so much
disturbed by the dream as to occasion her
mother to awake her, whereupon she eX-
claimed that friend of hers, captain of
ship at sea, was drowning. After the
lapse of several days, intelligence was re-
ceived that the captain had been knocked
overheard in storm and was lost and on
comparing dates it was found that the
dream and the event occurred at the same
time Isaak Walton in his life of Dome,
a clergyman of high repute, relates an
equally wonderful dream; and here are
other instances:
A person well known to me dreamed that
he was alone in certain church yard, a.
musing himself as he had often DONE by
reading the quaint epitaphs in the light of
the setting sun. A new grave attracted his
attention. At its head was a remarkable
stone, on which he read the date of death
and the name of the deceased it was that
of dear friend, whose company he had that
evening enjoyed. Such dream was suffi-
GENTLY painful to impress his memory very
strongly; but deeming himself too philoso-
phical to be moved by such circumstance,
he cast off the impression, and thought but
little of it until seven months afterwards,
when the death of his friend, at the very
date he dreamed, startled his philosophy. If
we consult the works of those who have
written on this subject, such as DIR. Aber-
crombie or Macnish, we find they relate a
number of such marvellous condolences, and
really speak of them as if they were easily
fNr la1u Of
shire dreams that she sees her lover slain on
certain day at Corunna. The event hap
pened lust as she dreamt Dr. Macnish
dreams of the death of a relative, three hum
bred miles off. Three days after he hears
that the dream represented the truth, al
though there had not been the slightest an
ticipation of such an event. Mrs. Griffith
wakes from her sleep, screaming out, the
boat is sinking-save them !" She was I'M
easy about proposed fishing party, of which
her husband was TO be one thus the dream
was quite natural, so she quietly fell asleep
again; but soon she wakes up in terror, say
ing, Z" the boat is going down p This of
course arose from the former dream; there
fore she composed herself third t,gne 20
sleep, but quickly starts up in agony, ex-
claiming, "they are gone-the boat is sunk %
Her husband, major in the army caught
alarm, and excused himself from his engage
ment but the rest of the party went, aud
were all drowned Such cases, OF which
multitudes might be collected, are among
those most easily attributed to mere colnci-
dence but we will take another, for the ac-
curacy of which DR.. Abefcrombie vouch-
es:
"Two sisters were sleeping together in a
room communicating with that of their BROTH
er, when the elder of them awoke in state
of great agitation, and, having reused the
other, told her that she had had a >frightfnl
dream. dreamt,' she said, that Mary's
watch stopped; and that, when l told you
of the circumstance, you replied, Much.
worse than that has happened, for IS
breath has stopped also, meaning their broth
er, who was very i'll, The following night
the very same dream occurred, followed by
similar agitation, which was composed, Ss
on the previous occasion, by finding the
brother in sound sleep, and the watch go
inc well On the next morning, one of the
sisters was sitting by her brother, while the
other was writing note in an adjoining
room. When her note was ready for being
sealed, she was proceeding to take out, for
this purpose, the watch alluded to, which
had been put by in her writing desk; she
was astonished to find it had stopped At
the same moment a scream was heard in the
other room--the brother, who had been con-
sidered going on favorably, had been seized
with sudden fit of suifocation, and had just
breathed his last The Use of the Body
in Relation 10 the Hind, by DR., Moore.