The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-12-11
Dreaming.

,:,ots have been oftener writ
y a' than that of dreams $, and
oa ,1 rrt. frequently as the theme
ansl lated. ate it is of that sort which
en .s,s ustll 70 lose interest for the gen
ss'rs ! nersons. No doubt the sub
I. rasne and to a considerable ex,
',u satisfactory one-one upon
y nav talk and write a very
u ~ g and at the end be not much
aas, u, van we're at the beginning:
Ilan 1an; as as people dream, they will
y I g talk about their Dreams q, Just
r.d viii continue to talk about
.,hsr. 4aq 50 long as there is rain and
i e. heat and cold; and not only
''' ,sout, but to be more or less
.sncerning them. We have no
z. s .ossk about dreams, either from
rIaogical or any other aspect.
as proposed to do is to record a
~ and observations, with the
that the greater portion of what
sitber came under the writer's
.1srieuce, OF was related to him
,als as having happened to them
allowing shows how a dream
,~ro and vet not true, in a curl
r,' Il was lately told to the wri-
one secondarily connected with
!,amstances. The narrator cccu-
isIgngs in Edinburgh, in company
hSend, at the time of the occur
One morning, during the winter
Inst. his fellow-lodger said to my
mt: II had a curious dream
JObn Fleming last night. l
MI he was drowned while skating
ra,sppie Loeb. l haven't been
pgst the thing out of my head.
M will be bearing to-day. Sup
mvalk over after office hours and
aAsting?"
btTo young men took their way in
fernoon to Dunsappie Loeb.
sure enough, among the skaters
asjr friend John Fleming. Por-
d the ice were in but an indiffer-
Ute for skating, and the two young
yhO we're not themselves skaters,
Edtheir friend off the dangerous
nd But the skater made some
Erht of their fears, and showed
sHmore bold and venturesome than
mite iudicious in the circumstances.
|Hg, no mischance befell, the
FINISHED his sport unscathed, and
arsmer of the dream and his COM
IN, my informant-the former a
deal relieved in mind-returned
/. While the dreamer was looking
as Scotsman next morning, one OF
Int things his eye fell upon was a
gsph recounting the death on the
Eas day Of a young man named
fleming, who had been drowned
skating. 1t was of course some
John Fleming-another young
Edthe same name.
Ahe above, though | have changed
ame of the chief actor, the circum.
Em happened as here set down-the
hn which they were narrated to me
@in whose good faith | have i'm.
trust. Some may regard this as
Rmrious result of the dream thar
& friend of the dreamer had beer
Sna 1t would almost seem to
Hhat dreams may make mistake;
4snse of going astray and visiting
Hong people.
we'll known and esteemed Edin
% adEocate, now dead, used some
!, . relate the following. While a
Mone OF the studies in which HI
most successful was mathematics
hslhe last sessions of his school lif'
" trying hard for one of the math
zeal prizes. Another youth ant
sawere running q neck-and-necl
Fm the coveted honor. On regular
sarrlng days the boys in the clas
slproblems to work in a givel
Zach of the rivals had done al
aefclses correctly up till almost tn
= ne term. At length our boy wa
eaflled by one problem-the las
Rrequired to be done. By n,
9' Of labor and pains could he sue
u solving it. On the evening be
ne DAY on which the exercises wer
gwen in, he had puzzled at th
sae problem late into the night
~ ~ stlll completely baflled, an,
aa,y and bodily wearied by his lon,
!, @gave way, boy-like, to Il floo'
N q vexation and modification
y ,als state went to bed. Durin
gm he dreamed that he was agai
~ IN solving the problem, an
II, worked it out rapidly and easil
~, y, ne felt sure was the correct re
inen a deep and dreannless slun
@ceeded, which lasted till morr
When the boy rose, instead {
remaining to him only a confuse
sSuon Of having dreamed abor
ny at the problem, he sat dowr
NY and then solved the exercis
~ Y the slightest difficulty.
not, of course, an uncommo
y persons to have dreams of th
W., sr-for the poet to dream verse
-sslla plots and situations, the ba
\ sases' the mathematician problem
= . very rarely that these dream
,a.. any practical service to ii
s. Is They vanish with the wal
ss1, lig only a vague and incongr,
nla. af. We have all heard pc
al. ,a'e how they have successful
! Il, IS,t 1ae a IN their sleep some piece
] sa,,;.h %ss has been exercising their me-
4 aes u. all day; but the above
er aaa ale lew instances the presel
sa,,ass aas ever known of u dream
ssa resulting thus practically.