The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-09-12


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!, DREAMS. 'a'
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What is dream? Is re tempofa
~ frolic Of the brain, which, reteaiss
ed from The guidance Of reason. re
lnxas from rules snd laws SAID jinaul
ges IN a little incoherent :,muss,nen'
of its own, as the chairs anil table.
are said to doswl,ea---the family ha,
gone to bed and tile llnuse lie still
Does it,ori ,inate and Invent its fan
tas,ic images, or are they merely thu
shadows and echoes Of past eveatsi
Is it a psychological influence or d
spiritual one, ora bIrBding of both?
There certainly have been dreams
that foretold events, which came
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true, and how then did The sleeper
get his premoni'ory knowIedge2 Bot
ties Of hot water placed Ia. the feet
will produce cer,sins Impressions ant
dreams Of vague and unsatis faclory
nature. Ice applied to the temples
will give happy Tireams, in which,
rare c"'ors appears before the dream
er's eyes. Bit these are effects caus- :
ed by the bodily sensations, aud are
com municated.to the brain by nerves
and n", Ivy occult intelligence. -
A French writer. is .qaoted as say y.
ing that to dream g,oriously we must
act gloriously while we are awake,
and to bring dewnangels to converse
with US in our sleep we must labor
in the cause of virtue during the
day. There can, be no possible doubt
that the same idea or train of ide s
which pursnes Us through the day
follows Us into the land of dreams,
and runs up and down the ladder Of
sleep with presidency which often
is annoying and wearisome. Some.
times the idea THAT eludea us in the
'iay comes to US AZ night. Muaicians
have found a lost chord in tiieir
areams; matlematicians have deci
dsd ahs,ruse calculations by the cor
rect figures which their waking
minds conh not grasp, but WHICH
came to them clearly when, they were
sound asleep, and we're With them.
when they awoke. Y sass. u.
franklin had several Of his pro:
jects decided for him BY dreams.
Sir J. Herscbe' composed poetry in
his sleep, Which he commiue'f topa.
per on awakening. Goethe says fh
his memoirs: "rhe objects which
had occupied my. attention during
the day often reappeared in cos meet
ed dreams. In the anotningssI was
accustomed to, record my dreams on
paper" Coleridge comprised bis 20.
e'D of the "Aby ssinian Maid" in "a
dream ;sand'it was said of Lord def
frey that, athonghshe went to bed at
night with events plans and dates all
in q whirl iu his head, duriog sleep1
''they crysta|ized around,th prop
er centres" x,a a.
1t issconsidered among people Of
education and refinement a vulgar
habit to relate dreams OF. attach an,
Importance t. them, yet We are told
Of Lord Bacon that, be himself re
cords a dream In which he saw his
fathers house in the country plaster.
Ell aliover with blacksmortar, an lie
had no doubt on waking that he
should hear bad tidings. Il actually,
proved true, as; his father died nm, the
very night on which he dreamed II
Wien Poste, aster Jewell was dying
he awoke from q sleep and' inquired
i anything was wrong in. The fawiiy1
# n,en,ioning Ills bro,ller-iu.1
avs name. They told him, there
vas mt, when he re.ns,ked: .sVer, |
TRANCE" and added Thai he had /
'rea,neds there was. z His hmther in
aw lad just dle'lsbut the family r
ieemed IL best 70 Keep the news frou
him.. fearing fatal results. 81, 49, IS
IL the old Bibles days young men
Jaw. visions and aid men dreamed
and great isnp0rtance, VA !,
'tiached to them, asethe history OH
Joseph sho-s. The .Eygpyians ana,
Bah, ionians governed; their lives hy
sreams, rs the Chinese do to-day
.gnorant people fortityr 1hemselyes
With what is called dream sbaok.-
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