The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-01-02
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DREAMS.

4 Do you believe in dreams2"
If YOU ask me If believe that dreams
some to pas" and are to be regarded at
nv time and under any circumstances, in
<Ais age of the world, as intimations Of
1oning events, answer "No. do not
(. EcIieye in dreams"
And there is scarcely subject to every
Ind 80 familiar, about which so much
sanerstition and error are foolishly in
It|eed, to the disturbance of the peace,
snd often to the serious injury Of other
H'ze sensible people.
Ten thousand things that we think of
when we are awake come to pass as we
koped or feared they would, and we make
al nose of the fact but if we dream Of
I||e event, and il happens according to the
6I<am, it is set down as something won
d1ffnl, and IT goes to make an argument
< believing in drcams A mother parts
tz;hfnlly with l.sr rs6Ic boy who goes to
}ta war Every day she thinks of him in
the thickcst of the fight, and she sees him
xounded, dying, dead If the report
cones home that he has been slain in
tsltle, she does not connect the event with
Ie< thoughts Of his death. But IL she had
fream Of the same kind just before the
1eFs came, hca she is very sure the dream
VI 10 prepare her for the dreadful blow
6tout to fall :
| was sitting in the same chair few
@ecks ago, in which | am now writing,
nd had occasion to use letter of date
&pmc twenty years ago, and alluded to in
printed volume before me. The gentle
IAN to whom the letter was written was
- Europe the writer was dead. had
ID reason to suppose it was possible for me
b obtain 1t. While arrested by the want
ef it in my work, the door bell rang
entlewecc.,r ,rha ~ lad never been here before
las Minds yirs 1he called to bring me
tarcel ofa, dhdscripts found in the closet
4 house in city seventy miles away,
hich might be of use in the work on
1,ich he was told was engaged took
<em from his hand, opened them, and
first one was the original DRAFT Of the
entical letter required l merely put
proper page to il at the head Of the
let and went on with my work, without
ling to turn leaf or alter line to
er the suddenly appearing letter Sup
that had dreamed Of that letter be-
In closet Of that gentlsman's house,
had gone there and found it, the case
IA have been worthy Of going into
Is as a remarkable evidence of the
[h there is in the revelations Of dreams.
coincidence was indeed startling. The
|er of the packet knew that the papers
ID be Of use to me, but that was all
ZONES to me, seventy miles, and hap
10 to present himself in my study at the
FIN instant Of time when required Que
ne score Of letters he brought me, and
M was the only one of the twenty that |
ia any occasion to use.
The philosophy of dreams is the simplest
a. NJ those mysteries about which the wis
on Of the wise has been employed. The
whose power over the thoughts is far
ID being absolute when We are wide
Ike, Is nearly powerless when we are
ecp. That's ALL We are unconscious,
greater or less degree, according to the
|ndness or completeness of the slumber
q which we fall. The rapidity Of the
fations Of the mind Is as grent in sleep
b waking hours, and as in IN instant
can recollect or conceive of years
|joyment or sorrow in distant land so
sleep, in single moment, long series
events, past or future, appears as pres
Il, and when VIC awake the impression is
If we had lived through the whole period
bat has been In the brain. A gun is fired,
pd ere il rouses us from sleep, a long
ream is the result. The sense Of hearing
not destroyed, but only diminished In
eu,euess. Persons asleep will sometimes
lear questions put in an ordinary tone Of
oice, and viii answer them intelligently,
put have no recollection Of the converse
ion alferward. The action Of the heart
md lungs goes on, and so does digestion.
All the functions essential to life proceed
without interruption; but the viii Is no
onger master Of the mind. The state of
he stomach has more to do with our moral
md mental condition than we are Inclined
70 admit. We may 60 to sleep, after u
upper Of wholesome food, aud rest well,
'ndisturbed by bad dreams. But indgcs
ion breeds nightmare and all its horrors.
When the affrighted patient complained 10
is physician that his departed grandfather
ppearcd to him ia his sleep, the doctor
Iearniug that the man had eaten half
minee pie on going TO bed, told him TO eat
a whole one and he would see his grand
mother too
The circulation Of the blood Is impeded