Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-02-05
InCongruiiy Of Dreams.

DREAMS, even regarded simply rs stray
shadows fitting across the halfsleepinG
mind, present an inoongruous variety of
peculiar incldents--tragic, pathetic, won.
derful, ludicrous. The substance of the
following extracts is from a recen. Eng
lish work by DIR. Symonds,
In sleep, with the muscles relaxed, the
senses at rest, thought and voluntary mo-
ton In repose, the work of the organic
functions goes on, the blood circulatos, Is
purified by respiration, and, for the time
being, as DR.. Symonds puts In, the body
lives the life of a vegetable. But there are
variediiegrees of sleep. Some of our senses
may bo comparatively wakeful whilst
others are In sound repose. In this state
one organ may receive impressions that
will excite activity OF association in others
more or less wakefnl. II Is this incom.
faculties, which produces dreams
Mr., Macnish, happening TO sleep In
damp sheets, dreamed he was dragged
through a stream" DR.. Symonds wit
messed in his sleep what he thought was a
prolonged storm of thunder, which he
was afterwards able to trace 10 tho light
of a candle brought suddenly into the
dark room where he had fallen asleep.
He relates that person having n blister
applied TO his head hneied he was scalped
by party of Indians. / remembered,
when boy, sleeping in a strange house,
in Au old fashioned room, with an oaken
store cupboard over the bed. dreampt
that was being murdered; the assassin
struck me ON the head, and l awoke with
a sense OK pain in that region. Putting
my hand 10 my forehead, found il sticky
with bloo1l felt almost too III to cry
for help, but at length l alarmed the
household, and, on procuring light, II
was discovered that some fermenting Jam
had leaked through the bottom of the
cupboard and fallen upon my head in a
sluggish stream. A few months ago, short
ly before going to bed, 4 friend had been
discussing with me the peculiar instincts
of animals, and, more particularly, their
sense OF the coming on of storms After
this he dreamed he was Worcester short.
horn, grazing In pleasant meadow on the
Horefordshire side of Malvern Hills. He
had number of companions Signs Of q
storm appeared in the sky, misty vapoT
hung on the well-known beacon. He re.
membered distinctly, although he was a
COW, watching, with sense Of great de,
light, the beauty of the preliminary token,
of the storm. With the other cows, he
quietly strolled towards the shelter of an
adjacent tree, and waited until the storm
should break. He was chewing the oud
aud he rellshed its herbaeeous flavor He
distinctly remembered wagging his tail
vet all the time he had full reasoning
faculties, and alively sense of the beauties
of the scenery.
DIR. Macnish says, once his dreaming
travelled so far into the regions OF
adsurdity that he conceived himself to be
riding upon his own back one Of the re-
semblances being mounted ON another
and both animated with soul appertain'
ing to himself, In such manner that he
knew not whether he was the carrier OF
the carried. These are odd examples OF
the incongruity Of "the impertecticn OF
the dreaming memory" which Is most
strongly illustrated when we dream Of
those who are dead. We believe them
still TO be living, simply because we have
forgotten that they are dead" A friend
OF DR.. Symonds dreamed that he was
dead, and that he carried his own body In
a coach 10 bury IT, When he reached the
plae8 OF burial, a stranger said 81 would
not advise you, sir, to bury your body In
this place, for they are about 10 build 80
near il that have no doubt the body will
be disturbed by the builders" THAT"
replied the dreamer, Is very true, thank
YOU for the Information, and viii bury II
Ia another spot" upon which he awoke.