Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-11-05
wnsf one Dreams

Imnres.ions on some special sense
will produce very characteristic dreams,
tbe orieion of which may take SUCH
trouble In its determination fhat we
might well be tempted to deny .us
material origin Of the vision. Dr: hei1
had a blister applied to his head, anu
dreamt accordingly that he had oeen
scalped by Indians. Here tne eohn.
ton between the dream ana tne o"'
ward impression, manipulated SO ~
speak, by the brain. was clear! Du.
that connection may be anything out
patept in cases where person Dreams
of being frozen to death, the e1citihS
cause having been merely deficiency
of bedcJothes on a chilly night. Ia
case related by DIR. Carpenter. where
an eminent Judge dreamt OF being tor
mented by a crowd OF LIZARDS, ~hicn
were crawling over him. the origin oil
the dream was still more dIfticult 10
trace. The cause of this reptiiian Tisi-
tation was readily eIpl,cable, however.
on his entering the apartments IN WHICH
he had spent the previous evening" "hen
he saw Oh the base of the CLOCK num-
Der of carved lizards
A similar instance is afforded oy
personal experience OF the writer, IN
which he dreamt that he was walking
in a forest in which lizards of every hue
and kind were engaged IN a combat
with humming birds. Pozziing MINI
self over the origin of his dream, II a,
last dawned upon his recollection that
some time previously he had trayerseu
In a railway carriage, having Tor MS
yis-s-vis a lady whose hat was decorat-
ed with numming birds plurnage.
fasten by a brooch accurately repte-
senting a lizard. By the same kipd OF
association revived by memory, end
often projecting forgotten remscences
into the mental foreground, dreams
are suggested which deal with events At
first sight apt 70 be mistaken for those
of utterly spontaneous nature
Msury relates that in early life he
visited a village on the Msrne, named
Trilport. His father had built bridge
&C this spot The subject OF one dream
ives thai his childhood days were being
spent at Trilport, and that a man iu
uniform, on being asked his name. told
Maury that he was brtdgekeeper ana
mentioned his name. which Maury
distinctly remembered when he awoke.
OF his name he had no recollection
whatever, but on inquiring OF an Old
servant of his fathers if a person of
the name in question was once gate
keeper at Trilport bridge, she answered
In the affirmative. and mentioned that
the mau kept the gate when the bridge
was built.
Thus does memory play strange tricks
with our imagination, especially when
the latter faculty runs riot IN the
absence of will and consciousness, and
relates itself to the world OF dreams
The supernatural theory of dreams and
warnings recently revived in our midst
Is, after all, but sop to the Cerberus
oil ignorance. Ii is easy-far too easy
for the peace and comfort OF many
minds-to convert q mere coincidence
I between u dream and an event into a
close relationship which seems IN the
dream freshsdowing of the event IL
I question. But III science, as III healthy
+ common sense, there Is no Iustlhcatloh
/ for the continuance of such superstl-
/ ton. IL certain dreams are warnings
and portents, what shall we say OF
I those to which no such functions can be
attached? And il of certain trivial
events We are forewarned, what Is the
/ explanation of the striking anomaly,
that of the grave disasters OF life We
usually receive no warning at all
: DIR. Msudsley said: sit has been
Justly remarked that il we were actually y
to do in sleep all the strange things We
dream we do, il would be necessary to
I put every man in restraint before he
went to bed; for, as Cicero said, dream
ers would DO more strange things than
msdmen. A dream put into action
must, indeed. 10 very much like III
sanity (s. g., the ordinary sleep vigil
as insanity has at times the look of q
/ waking dream"
Poets without number have invariably
treated dreams as the best type Of the
unreslities of life and nature. The
( Psychologist, on the contrary, sees in
the visions OF the night no trifing
objects unworthy of serious study and
reflection, but indications and clews to
the better understanding of the niyster-
les which beset our waking lives. ''The
grave portents" of the night in thi.
view cast no shadow over the future,
and exercise no sway over the destinies
If the modern mind. They serve,
however. a noble purpose, as aids,
through their revelations Of the leisure
fancies of the brain. toward knowledge
of the boundaries which separate the
realm of body from that of mind
boundaries which in truth divide our
being"
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