The Grant County herald. (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1883, 1880-05-29
EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS.

SOME DISCOVERIES MADE THROUGH THEM
\ writer in Temple Bar has the fol-
loving about dreams: A certain lawyer
was seriously perplexed with compl-
Gated law case. In the night his wife
saw him get up, walk TO writing table,
compose an elaborate opinion" place it
carefully in a drawer, and return to
bed. Next morning he remembered
nothing Of his dream, and could not be-
leiyc it till his wife gave him ocular de-
monstraton Of the fac by pointing out
the drawer where the "opinlon" lay com.
plete.
students and poets are often indebted
70 dreams tor their brightest ideas, and
the marvellous composition Of the frag
ment "kubla Khan 5y Coleridge, will
occur to every reader. He says he had
fallen asleep in his chair while reading
in Purchase Pilgrimage Of q palace
built BY Khan kubla, and remained
asleep about three hours, during which
time he could not have COMPOSED less than
two or three hundred lines. The images
rose before him as things, and with them
the corresponding expressions, without
any sensation or consciousness OF effort.
When lie aWoke. he instantly sat down
tocommit his composition to paper, but
was called away by a person on business,
and when he returned 70 resume the
poem II had utterly vanished from his
/ memory.
Language long forgotten, OF apparently
I but mpeliectly known Ill waking life,
! have been known to recur II dreams and
deliril3m AbercromDe relates several
| authenticated instances ot this sort, and
! the writer knew IN able clergyman who,
when boy, preached over IN his sleep
4 the sermon he had last heard, seemingly
I word for word, and il was no nnc.mmon
occurrence for his friends to gather round
/ his bedside to hear his discourse. But ne
4 yas endowed with marvellous memory ~
lis waking hours, and on one occasion.
il said. he learned three books on his
way home from school.
Missing documents and forgotten
n1aces are sometimes recovered IN dreams
s;r Walter Scott, IN his notes to the An
tia,ary." speaks Of gentleman sorely
trarblei III his mind because ne was
pressed tof the payment Of some tune
money which he believed was anlustiy
ll.araed. and which he had a confused
ra6oIection Of as having been bought out
by his deceased father many years ago.
IL his dreams lie thought The shade 81
| his father appeared to lin and 'nqnifea
tha eanse al Ms grief. Not at ali startled
by the apparition, he graveIy atated ,he
f.ets 1T tie case. Tie shade told nm
tnat h. mus. seek cat an old lawyer Who
who had retired from professional ousl
,,4ss snl VAS now living at lnveIesk ie
rsyn the LAWYER, name and ieinalhea
lhas the papers relating % w
n,,-.f4 ,.,, -. af the tlthes were IN bis hands
nov. {q. tAat the transaction had ~.
sr,r,. many years ago, AMI .has va 'he
a,.ry one S winch tie lawyer "as ever
III. a.,..gaa ~ his account, il would be nee-
essary ,a cai. ii to ms recollection ~ sai7
tast5. .h.t when | vent % pay ms ho
s.,,.t .6etr sas difficulty ~ 9'SlhS
0.l... fsl Z 1gAs pc ..--''
IL were Forced - diinh y .a. " i.,'.
5. tayeIg. On zen, 5.s9 -AFesssa sne
ren-ie.{a. called pom Il .a"yef, VIZ ..3
,c,1ll l5. remember the TRANSACTION ~,
,,,a incident uf the Portugal com "as
80 ,.;,ral when il ali reeurred % M
!, ,,la,norv ,,,,, Tie documents were hahaea
J - il hm and carried to filnaofs. y y