Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-16
u o DREAMS.

Everybody has dreams. Dreams Ut
some time, either by night or by DAY
slecpinc or waking. For a person 70
have no dreams at all in his Sleep 1t"
sure sign tina, his brain is out OF nix, or
that he has fallen into a state OF chronic
stupidity. Even dogs have Dreams IL
we can Judge anything from the way
they kick, whine, growl, and show their
teeth sometimes in their sleep, evidently
doing battle with some canine adver-
sary. Dreams have q variety of signif-
canoe, real physiological Significance,
aside from the n~onsensical cabalistic in
terpretations usually assigned them in
" dream books"
A medical work we were reading, n
few days since, says that lively dreams
are, in general, a sign Of nervous action.
Soft dreams a sign of slight irritation
Of the brain I; often, in nervous fever,
announcing the approach OF a favorable
crisis. Frightful dreams are a sign OF
determination Of blood to the a
Dreams about a fire are, in women, signs
of an impending h~emorrhage. Dreams
about blood and red objects are signs oil
intammatory conditions. Dreams about
rain and water are often signs OF dis
eased mucous membranes and dropsy'
Dreams of distorted forms are frequently
a sign of abdominal distractions and
disorders Of the liver. Dreams in which
the patients see any part Of the body,
especially suffering, indicate disease in
that part. Dreams about death often
prccede apoplexy, which is connected
with determination Of blood to the head.
The nightmare, (incubus, ephialtes),
with great ssnsitiveness, is q sign OF
determination of blood to the chest.
"To these" says Baron von Fenchter-
sleben, ave may add that dreams Of
dogs, after the bite Of a mad dog, often
precede the appearance Of hydrophobia,
but may be only the consequence Of ex-
cited imagination" DR.. Forbes Wins
lowquotes several cases in which dreams
are said to have been prognostics l..
Arraud de Villeneuve dreamed n
night that q black cat bit him OF the
side. The mex day an anthrax APP
peared on the part bitten. A patient Of
Galeu's dreamed that one of his limbs
was changed into stone. Some days
after, the limb was paralyzed. Roger
d'0xteyn, Knight of the Company OF
Douglas, went to sleep in good health
toward the middle of the night he Saw
in his dream a man infected with the
plague, quite naked, who attacked him
with fury, threw him on the ground,
after a desperate struggle, and, holding
him between his open thighs, vomited
the plague into his mouth. Three days
after, he was seized with the plague
and died. Hippocrates remarks that
dreams in which one sees black spectres
are a bad omen.
We heard of n man once who dreamed
of digging potatoes, and eating them as
fast as he dug them; within q week he
married an Irish girl right from the bogs
of could Ireland" and is now the un.
happy father Of fourteen little half-oreed
Micks, all girls except two. Everybody
has heard Of the F%renchman's dream
"vou night | dreams I finds Eve dollare,
zen I Ends ten d~ollare, zen ! finds a
hundred dollare, and in Won leetle vile
l has two tousand dollare. Bime by
| wakes up and | no has him. Next night
l dreams I tumbles out Of bed, md sits
on re dam cat wis re sharp claws.
wakes up dis time vary queek, for
sacr-r.r-e dam by gar! dere has en-"
A friend of ours the other night dreamed
he was a big Newfoundland dog with o
brass collar on, and a very long tail
next day he got fearfully kicked by o
wood-packing jackass, driven by a Chi.
nauan with the longest tail he ever saw
in his life. We have heard and known
of other dreams which were "not all q
dream " dreams in which there was
more truth than poetry. Dreams are
not all unreliable, but not more than
| three in a thousand will do to bet on.