The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-12-21
CuriOsit:es CT Sleep.
4 COLLECTION OF SINGULAR DREAMS.

| tNu, III IL very lew SStt!ids, ANU "iI'i
have been excited by external lniiuen-
ces. The following examples of such |
! dreams prove how great is the activity |
of the brain during sleep compared
with the actual lapse Of time.
A person vino was suddenly aroused
from sleep by q few drops OF water
sprinkled in his face, dreamed OF the
events Of an entire life, in which hap,
pineSs and sorrow were mingled; ana
Which finally terminated with an alter
cation upon the borders OF an extern
sive lake, into which his eXasper"ted
companion, after IA considerable strpg-
Gle, succeeded in plung'ns him.
DIR. Carpenter mentions the case OF a
clergyman falling asleep III his pulpit
during the singing OF IL psalm before
the sermon, and awakening with tue
conviction that he must have slept for
at least an hour. and that the conSre-
CATION must have been waiting for him;
but on referring to his psalm book, he
was consolc,l by finding shat his stunt
Der had not lasted longer than the sing
ing of single line.
Sir Benjamin Brodie, in his "PhSy-
Geological Inquiries" 1854, mentions
the following fact of the late Lore iioi-
land: "On an occasion when he was
mach fatigued, willie listening to 4
., friend who was reading aloud, he lei
.slpen and had dream, the palticn'
;, lars Of which it would take him quar-
: fer of an lour or longer toaeXpfsss III
writing. After he awolie he tound That
he remembered the beginning OF one
, sentence. while he actu lily heard the
,; latter mart OF the sentence immediately
u following: so that, probably, the Whole
Il time duIin. which he had slept dlu not
u occunv more than few seconds
~ 4 lawyer found it necessary to as
- certain the exact age Of Il client OF his
~ Who was also his cousin. Their grand
!" father. who was Il rather eccentric per
a, son. had died when they were n"yS.-
= The LAWYER often told the cousin tina
- if The grandfather had been alive TN
II information could have been readl'.
W attained, and chat lie had dim rccni
lection of having seen record keii u
w the old gentleman, and OF there pen
i some regularity about 1t when IL
~ could not recall. Some months axe
20 the search had been given up as hope
~" ~. less, he dreamed that the grandtatht
-, came to him and sad: lyon nav
l-a been trying to find out when d. WI
L. horn Don't you recoilect that one
y, ternoon, when we were fishing, L rc'
- Won some lines from an ElzeVir no
NO ace, and showed yon how 1 haa mac
- y family record out of the DOCK ny !!
'"a.i sertine a number of blank leaves at Il
=, end ? Now, as you know, devise
ons nv library to the Rev. was
"as Great fool for giving him books viii
=, no will never read. Get the Hora
~ and Won will discover the exact hour
a n Which J. was born" The lawy'
decnlv impressed with the drea
"tla started by the first morning train
last visit the clergyman, who lived IN
ncinhhoring city, found the Hora
Tho and at The end were the pages cons
lie tnting the family record, exactly
ms ms had been described in the dream.
nj s no effort of his memory could he rec
80 to his recollection the incidents OF
And fishing excursion.
l.aa Tie following case, to which Dire
49, in other respects highly renal kahi'
sur occurred twice on the same night, ca
s.:s" nn1er tbe notice of the writer OF t
'l1n sorticle in the wear 1913. Our read
:" "n :. NAV recollect that in the year just
f,li corded there was a terrible case
lai, der. DR., Webster, Professor
anu chemistry in Harvard College, be
convicted of the murder of his acqui
urn- tahcC--We can va 80. ro will
~, her x. Y.-wen known in the liter
lake. World an" Ineu ,,",,;|,r,l,, nai,
the had, some years previously, pal'
oart, long visit to the United states q"
knew which she became intimately ac4u
nit'-N md his fan
lrked ted with Ut. i" e"s.e i.;.a,,ass am,
that who showed her much Kindness aii'
,lush tention. After her return 20 thY
i. the she continued to correspond WIN
nee of family and one day, III the early
arms tumn of 1913, gentleman relate
silentID Dr. Parkman called upon her WIZ
bank introduction from Prof: Webster.
arson that night she went to bea atae'
whose hour, but soon experienced a nor
nirh n dream. She fancied that she wa
of the ing urged by DR.. Webster to assls
; and in concealing set OF human Don
gentle a wooden box ana she u's ,I;',,,
,arried collected that there was thigh
ie, the which, after failing to break
pieces. they valnly atch',' ',
+ > few scrt. but it was too long. While
He al were trying 10 iiiue ,no,
st am fancied, under her bed--she woN
nliUht state III horror anu WV" f>iSt
rocious She instantly struck light, ana
ia was to dispel the recollection OF her
and he ble vision by reading. Attera Ia
" were two hours, during which she had
in her Nv fixed her attention on the 90"
i'm, he nut out the lights, and soon fell;
y soft, The same dream again occurred
in her which she did not dare-aith"
ries of woman of singular moral and ps
Minnie courage-to attempt to sleep any
"a said that night. Early on the lou
q could morning she called upon the
,be had aud told him of her fearful eIpei
md and of the past night. Nothing more
all and time was thought of these dream
ct were shortly aftelward the news 7
TO see. England that DR.. Parkman wa'
retircs. ing; that the last time he was
barming was entering the college gate
that the jauitor was suspected
o'clock ing murdered hlhl'
,nno as On the writer mentioning this
Y. she at once eXciatncd y
sn,endid dreams! DR.. Webster must
, end of murdcrer!" The next mail /
cursinrs. brought tile news that the TIN
,;s mas derer had been detected anu
the very time when \. Us df'
ed ears. cured, he must have been
4 oeress, Smuggling to get the bones-t
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