The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-06-16


than an hour. Upon his urn he found
to his surprise and chagrin That, although
some vague idea of the vision was still pres
ent, yet, with the exception of some or
10 scattered and fragmentarg lines aud i'm
ages, the whole had been asliterated from
his memory Instances like the above oe-
casionally occur where the mind in a state
of waking is aided by the PROCESSES carried
on during sleep, but these are rare. AS a
general rule dreams are wanting in coher-
ence and Hnsubstantial in reasoning. Moth
ing is more common than for the mind in
dreams To blend together objects and events
which could not have an associated exis-
tenee in reality The faces of friends long
since dead and events long Since past rise
before the mind with all the vfvidpess of re-
al existence, and fail 10 excite surprise BY
their inoongruity because the mind views
them without thaSssociation of ideas whTeh
in waking state would place them at such
a distance from the present that no cogni-
zance could be taken of them except as
very remote events. It is the absence of
these associated ideas, which in q state of
wakefulness fix the limits as to time and
space of each fact of which the mind has a
knowledge, that prevents any surprise at
the occurrence of unusual events in dreams,
and constitutes one of their most remarka-
bic features. The popular belief that in
dreams an insight is frequently given of
coming events is Shared by many well-in-
formed persons, and is supposed to be cor
roborated BY many remarkable cases; from
among them the following is selected. Mr..
D., residing in Edinburgh, informed his
aunt one evening of his intention to join a
sailing party the next morning upon the
firth of Forth. The lady retired to rest
and dreamed repeatedly of seeing a boat
sink and those on board drowning. When
awakened she went to the bedside of her
nephew, and with great difficulty obtained
his promise to remain at home. In the af-
ternoon violent storm arose, the boat was
upset, and all that were in it went to the
bottom. The earliest mention of dreams is
in the Scriptures and in the poems of Ho-
mer, in both of which supernatural ORR
gin is generally ascribed to them. By the
ancents, indeed, dreams were almost uni
versally regarded as coming from the other
world, and from both good and evil sources.
A great number of instances are on record
in The Greek and Latin classics of remarka-
BILE dreams, which show how widely the
faith In The spiritual nature of dreaming
was disseminated. The night before the
assassination of julius Caesar, his wife Cal
phurnia dreamed that her husband fell bleed
ing across her knees. On the night that
Attila died, the emperor Marclan at Con-
stantinople dreamed that he saw the bow
OF the Hunnish conqueror broken asunder
Cicero relates a story of two Arcadians,
who, travelling together, arrived at Megara
and went to separate lodgings, one of them
to an inn, the other to private house. In
the course of tho night The latter dreamed
that his friend appeared to him and begged
for help because the innkeeper was prepar-
ing to murder him. The dreamer awoke,
but not considering the matter worthy of
attention, went to sleep again. a second
time his friend appeared, telling him that as
sstance would be too late, for the murder
had already been committed. The murder
ed person also stated that his body had been
put into cart and covered with manure,
and that an attempt would be made to take
it out OF the city the next morning. The
dreamer awoke, went 10 the magistrates,
had the cart searched, when the body was
found and the murderer brought TO justice.
Dreams were even allowed to influence leg
islation. During the Marsian war 600
B. G. } the Roman senate ordered the tenn
pie of Juno Sospita to be rebuilt in conse-
QuenCo OF a cream Oh 1eC6lId H1etSlld, tue
wife of the consul Appius Claudius Pulch-
er. Some of the fathers of the Christian
church attached considerable importance
to dreams. Tertulian thought they came
from God as one species of prophecy, though
many dreams may be attributed to the agen
cy of demons. He believed that future
honors and dgnities, medical remedies,
thefts, and treasures had been occasionally
revealed by dreams. st. Augustine relates
dream by which Gennadius, Carthagin-
ian physician. was convinced of The immor-
tality of the soul. by the apparition to him
in his sleep of young man, who reasoned
with him on the subject. and argued that as
he could see when his bodily eyes were
closed in sleep, so he would find that when
his bodily senses were extinct in death he
would see and hear and feel with the senses
of his spirit.
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under the leadership of Joe Smith, jr., have
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