The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-06-04
"A Dreamer's Senses.

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sleeper's eyes he is almost sure to
awake, but at the very moment hemay
have dream of some tremendous fire,
perhaps that his house is in flames.
The ear of the dreamer is generally
on the alert, and proves gong to the
mysterious spirit to make its airy
rounds. To some sleepers the sound
of flute fills the air with music, or
they dream of a delightful concert. A
loud noise will produce terrific thun-
der and crashings unutterable, and at
the same time awake the sleeper. Ac-
cording to DR.. Abercrombie, gentle
man who had been q soldier dreamed
that he heard a signal gun. saw the pro-
ceedings for displaying the signals,
heard the hustle of the streets, the as
sembling of troops, etc. Just then he
was reused by his wife who had
dreamed precisely the same dream,
with this addition, that she saw the en-
envy land, and a friend of her hus-
band killed; and she awoke in fright.
This occurred at Edinburgh at the
time when a French invasion was
feared, and it had been decided to fire
a signal gun at the first approach of the
foe. This dream was caused, it ap-
pears, by the fall of q pair of tongs in
the room above. and the excited state
of the public mind was quite sufficient
to account for both dreams turning on
the same subject. An old lady, friend
OF the writer, relates similar dream
which occurred to her just before the
battle of Waterloo, when the fear of
an invasion by Napoleon was at its
height. She heard the march of troops
in the streets, and the screams of the
populace. They broke into her own
house, ransacked it, and pursued her
with bayonet. She fell on the
floor and pretended to be dead. After
sundry thrusts. which seemed to her
rowing spirit" to be quite innocuous,
the soldiers remarked that she was
"done for" They departed, and she
escaped to consciousness. This dream
was no doubt caused in the first in
stance by noise in the house or street,
and the painless bayonet thrusts by
some slight irritation, such as hair.
pin or other adjunct to dress. Whis-
pering in a sleeper's ear will often pro-
duce dream; and there are cases on
record in which people who sleep with
their ears open have been led through
dreadful agonies at the will of their
wakeful tormentors. The vivid de-
scription given of young officer so
treated by his comrades is both interest
ng and suggestive. In changing our
position, as we constantly do in sleep,
We touch the bedclothes, ETC., perhaps
he nose gets tickled or the sole of the
DOT, and dreams painful or pleasant
IRE the consequence. These may seem
rival causes, but it must be remem-
,ered that the mind is ready to fly into
he realms of fancy at the slightest in
imatfon. People have often dreamed
IT spending the severest winters in ST.
,eria, and of joining the expeditions to
he North Pole, simply because the bed
clothes have been thrown off during
'leep. 1t is said that a moderate heat
applied to the sOles of the feet will gen.
rate dreams of volcanoes, burning
Goals, etc. DR.. Gregory dreamed Of
Walking up the crater of Mount Etna.
md that he felt the earth warm under
lis feet. He had placed a hot-water
'ottle at his feet on going to bed. The
memory of visit he had once paid to.
Mount Vesuvius supplied the mental
picture. Persons suffering from tooth
che imagine that the operator is tug
ing at the faulty tooth, and somehow
annot extract it; or, as in DIR. GRECO
Us case. he draws out the wrong one,
nd leaves the aching tooth in statu
uo. A blister applied to the head is
tightly suggestive of being scalped by
indians, especially if Mayne Reid's
hastily details are at all fresh in the
aemory.-Tenap!s Bar.
The anglers theory that fish does
ot suffer much physical pain from
ook in his gills, or mental agony
ither, for that matter, is supported by
he recent experience of a Stratford,
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