Sharp County record., 1880-06-24
A Dreamer's Senses.

If a strong light be held before the
sleeper's eyes he is almost sure to
awake, but at the very moment hemay
have a 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 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, a gentle
man who had been a soldier dreamed
that he heard a signal gun, saw thepro
ceedings for displaying the signals,
heard the hustle of the stpeets, 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-
emy land, and friend of her hus-
band killed; and she awoke in a fright.
This occurred at Edinburgh at the
time when a French invasion was
feared, and it had been decided to fire
signal-gun at the first approach of the
foe. This dream was caused, it APP
pears, 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, friend
of the writer relates a 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 bayonet. She fell on the
floor and pretended to be dead. After
sundry thrusts, which seemed to her
growing 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 a hair
pin or other adjunct to dress. Whis-
pering in Sleeper'S ear will often pro-
duce a 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
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 it must be remem-
bered that the mind is ready to fly into
the realms of fancy at the slightest in
timation. People have often dreamed
of spending the severest winters in 81
IBERIA, and of joining the expeditions to
the North Pole, simply because the bed
clothes have been thrown OIL during
sleep. 1t is said that moderate heat
applied to the soles of the feet will gen.
crate dreams of volcanoes, burning
Goals, etc. 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 visit he had once paid to
Mount Vesuvius supplied the mental
picture. Persons suffering from tooth
ache imagine that the operator is tug
ging at the faulty tooth, and somehow
cannot extract it; or as in DR.. Grego-
ry's case, he draws out the wrong one,
and leaves the aching tooth in Statu
quo. A blister applied to the head is
highly suggestive of being scalped by
Indians, especially if Mayne Reds
ghastly details are at all fresh in the
memory.-Ienlple Bar.
THE anglers theory that fish does
not suffer much physical pain from a