The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-04

III a strong light be held before the
sleeper's eyes he is almost sure to
awake. but 1T the very moment hemay
have dream Of some tremendous fire,
perhaps that his house is in fiames-
The ear Of the dreamer is generally
on the alert, and proves . gong 10 the
mysterious spirit to make its airy
rounds. To some s,leepers the sourd
Of flute fills the air with music. or
they dream of delightful concert. A
loud noise will produce terrific ihun-
der and crashings unutterable. and at
the same time awake the sleeper. Ac-
cording 70 DIR. Abercrombie. gentle
man who had been soldier dreamed
that he heard signal gun. saw the pro-
ceedings for displaying the signals,
heard the hustle Of the streets, the as
sembllng 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 al Edinburgh at the
time when a French invasion was
feared. and il had been decided 10 ire
a signal-gun at the first approach Of the
foe. This dream was caused, it APP
pears. BIZ the fall of pair Of tongs in
the room above. and the excited state
Of the public mind was quite sufficient
10 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 Il. 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 bc quite innocuous,
the soldiers remarked that she was
4 done for" They departed. and she
escaped 70 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. Wits
pering in 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 viii Of their
wakefnl tormentors- The vivid de-
scription given Of a young officer so
treated By his comrades Is both interest
ing and suggestive. In changing our
position, as we constantly do in sleep,
we touch the bedclothes, etc. perhaps
the nose gets tickled or the sole Of the
foot. and dreams painful or pleasant
are the consequence These may seem
trivial causes. but il must be remem-
bered that the mind is ready to fiy into
The realms Of fancy at the slightest in
limatpUn. People have often dreamed
81 spending the severest winters In ST.
IBERIA. and Of joining the expeditions to
he North Pole. simply because the bed
clothes have been thrown of during
'leep. IL is said that moderate heat
crate dreams Of volcanoes. burning
soals. etc. DIR. Gregory dreamed q
Walking up the crater Of Mount Etna.
md that he felt the earth warm under
ais feet. He had placed a hot-water
,ottle nj 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 tooth
lche imagine that the operator is tug
ying NJ the faulty tooth, and somehow
'annot extract IL; or. as in DIR. GREGG
VS. case. he draws out the wrong one,
md leaves the aching tooth in statu
luo A blister applied to the head is
highly suggestive Of being scalpcd by
indians. especially If Mayne Reds
,hastly details are At all fresh m tho
INV Tcn4ple Bar.