Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-11
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If @ strong light be held before the sleep- CTS eyes he is almost sure to wake, but at the very moment he may 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 myste- rious spirit to make it's airy rounds. To some sleepers the sound of 8 flute fills the air with music, or they dream Of 8 delightful concert. A loud noise will produce terrific thunder and crashings unutterable, and at the same time awake the sleeper. According to Dr. Aber- crombie, a gentleman who had been a soldier dreamed that he heard single gun, saw the proceedings for displaying the signals, heard the hustle of the streets, the assembling of troops, &c. Just then he was reused by his wife who had dreamed precisely the same dream, with this addition, that she saw the enemy land and friend of her husband kill ed; and she awoke in fright. This occurred at Edinburgh at the time when a French in vasion was feared, and it had been decided to fire signel-gun at tho first approach of the foe. This dream was caused, it appears, by the fall of 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, a 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 it's 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 bayonets. She fell on the floor and pre- tended to be dead. After sundry thrusts, which seemed to her 'troving 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 instance by noise in the house or street, and the painless bayonet thrusts by some slight irritation, such as hairpin or other adjunct to dress Whis- pering in sleeper's ear will often produce dream and there ara cases on record in which people who sleep with their ears open have been led through dreadful agonies at the will of their wakefuI tormentors. The vivid de- scription given of . young officer so treated by his comrades is both interesting and sug- gestive. In changing our position, as we con stantly do in sleep, we touch the bedclothes,
 6c., perhaps the nose gets tiokled or the sole of the foot, and dreams painful or pleasant are the consequence. These may seem trivi- al causes, but it must be remembered that the mind is ready to fly into the realms of fancy at the slightest intimation. People have often dreamed of spending the severest winters in Siberia and of joining the expeditions to the North Pole, simply because the bedclothes have been thrown of during the sleep. It is said that moderate heat applied to the soles of the feet will generate dreams of volcanoes, burning coals &c. Dr. Gregory dreamed of walking up the crater of Mount Etna, and that he felt the earth warm under his feet. He had placed hot-water bottle at his feet on going to bed. The memory of a visit he had once paid to Mount Vesuvius supplied the mental picture. Persons suffering from toothache imagine that the operator is tugging at the faulty tooth, and somehow cannot extract it or, as in Dr. Gregory's case, he draws out the wrong one, and leaves the aching tooth in statu quo. blister applied to the head is highly suggestive of being scalped by In dians, especially if Mayne Reid's ghastly de- tails are at all fresh in the memory.