Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-13
Ghildren's department.
(Orisinal.1
DREAMING.

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DREAMING.
Perhaps it is common with all the human
family to dream. Even infants dream, as is
evident from their actions whilst sleeping.
Some individuals very rarely dream, and q
few persons have been known who did not
remember to have ever dreamed in their lives.
Such cases are so rare that it is certainly safe
to say that everybody dreams. What, it may
be asked, is dreaming? To answer this ques-
ton may not be very pro6table but it will
certainly be of some interest to everybody.
Dreaming is usually nothing more than a
continuation Of our waking thoughts. When
we go to sleep it is the body, not the mind,
that has ceased to act. We might say for the
sake of illustration, that the connection be-
tween the body aud mind has partially ceased
The senses are dormant in sleep. We see
nothing, we hear nothing, i've taste nothing,
we smell nothing, and we feel nothing, when
sound asleep. The FIVE senses are not dead,
but dormant. All the members Of the body
that are under the control of the will have
ceased, for the time, to be governed by that
faculty of the mind; but the heart beats, the
blood flows, and the breathing goes on the
same as when we are awake. Dreaming is
nothing but thinking when the body is asleep,
and thinking about the same things with
which we were engaged whilst awake.
Dreams are usually very confused. Per-
sons, places, past time, present time and future
time, are so mixed up that dreams are des-
titute of order, and are mostly like the
disconnected words and thoughts of the in
sane. All this is readily accounted for by
the fact that in sleep the mind is untrameled
by the senses, and uncontrolled by the laws Of
association.
fit be asked, "Do dreams ever come to
pass?" it may be safely replied that they do.
individuals often go to bed with some impor-
tant subject deeply impressed upon their
minds The body is worn out with toll and
labor, but the mind is not. The body goes
to sleep, but the mind continues to think, and
often the conclusions which are arrived at, are
those 10 which the mind was approaching
when the body fell asleep. Mathematicians
have often been known to complete in their
sleep long and difficult calculations which
they had commenced when awake Dreams
not only frequently come to pass, but they
indicate the bent of our minds. We never
dream about things that give US no concern
whilst awake. Dreams are kind of adver-
tisements of our waking thoughts. By them
we are able to come to a tolerably correct
conclusion respecting both our natural dispo-
sition aud the prevailing characteristics of
our mind. A good natured boy will rarely
dream about fights and quarrels, whilst
boy who delights in these things will often be
engaged in bloody trays whilst asleep. The
same is true respecting persons who talk in
their sleep. They talk about the things that
most engage their thoughts whilst awake,
and use the same kind of language which
they are daily accustomed to use Sometimes
these sleep-talkers reveal things that they are
able to keep secret when awake. Once lit
tie boy of violent temper had contracted the
bad habit of using profane language. This
he concealed from his parents for years. 1t
so happened that one day whilst at play with
his school fellows, he became very angry.
In the evening when he came home from
school, he told the whole to his parents except
that he swore most profanely. In the night
the boy awoke his parents by his loud and
blasphemous language. The parents had no
idea that their boy was guilty of this wicked
habit.
Long before the coming of our Saviour,
God sometimes made known future events to
certain persons in dreams. At the present
time such thing rarely if ever is the case.
We have more sure word of prophecy res
pecting the future than dreams 1t may be
thatsometimes yet, under very peculiar circum-
stances, individuals are advised by dreams
respecting the future. The thing is barely
possible, it is highly improbable.
A good EXETER of dreams is hearty sup
per of strong food. Hence, dreams not only
indicate our temperament and bent of mind !;
| out also tell WITH COuSlueTdUle eAaCtuesS Illo
condition of the stomach Those persons who
are in the habit of eating heavy supperS at q
late hour in the night are generally troubled
with frightful dreams and that dreadful thing
they call night mare. A good promoter of
sound sleep and pleasant dreams, is good
wholesome food in moderate quantities, and
the apparatus of digestion stimulated by use.
full labor. The sleep of the laboring man is
sweet whether he eat much or little; but the
sleep of the idle drunkard and glutton is dis.
turbed by frightful hobgoblins.
How TO Do Goods any little girl who
reads wondering how a child can do good !?
I can tell you one way, which learned from
the story of one of the sweetest little girls |
ever knew.
A minister told me that when he was
preaching to new congregation, he was
struck by the attention of a lovely child
whose eye was fixed upon his lips, except now
and then when she looked under her mothers
bonnet with smile, as if something pleased