Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-04
--REsSSNliIS V
YailY :Eaao1e
In DREAMLAND.
REMARKABLE VISION AND lTS
: PROBABLE EXPLANATION.

! PROBABLE EXPLANATION.
What Lord Brougha;n Says of Dreams.
A Summer L0afer's Experiencc-CoIc-
ridges "IZubla Khan ''-How the Soul
Suffers During Sleep,
a remarkable dream was related b. Rev.
r. d. Grafton il tho personal knowledge Of
Rev. Mr. Gregory, both well known ministers
in Teas. In Denton county, some years
since, q gentleman was sick enough to require
some attention at night. 10 one thought the
sick man dangerously i'll. \ friend sat with
Linn till midnight, giving medicine. The sick
man resting comfortably and no more to be
done By direction Of the physician, the
watcher, getting drowsy, leaned his chair
against the foot Of the bed and fell asleep.
He dreamed he saw the soul Of the sick friend
come out of his mouth, get on tho floor, go be-
hind cliair, try TO hide behind another, then
behind the wardrobe, finally crouch ty the
fireplace The devil entered tho room and
followed the soul in every step it had taken,
behind the chairs wardrobe. then before it,
at the fireplace, when the soul gave piercing
Shrek and awolle the sleeper to find his sick
friend dead! A man dead whom no one ex-
pected to del
This WAS related to show the communica-
ton between the soul in the body and that OF
one in the other world, or departing. Is this
truel l do not think the question can be an
s3cred in the affirmative with such proof as
offered in the occurrence related or any Of q
similar nature. | affirm that the sleeping
man was awakened by the scream Of his dy-
ing friend or some other noise, if any, and
that the dream may have occupied only tho
fractional part Of a second. The sleeper may
"vc had this distempered dream and awall-
cd from an uncomfortable position in his
air to find his friend dead. He went to
ecp rejecting on sickness, possibly death.
The two thoughts arc almost if not quite III
separable.
THINKING DURING SLEEP.
Dreaming is thinking during sleep Lord
Brougham probably devoted more attention
In learned, scientific way to tho study Of
dreams than any other writer worth mention
ing, though many distinguished scholars have
thought and written much on the same sub
ject. \ writer pats the matter tersely thus:
a cams have, il all ages and countries,
b believed in as indications of the future;
& Of all forms OF superstition, this IS, per-
haps, the most excusabe.n Lord Brougham
said all our dreams occur either just as we
go to sleep or - We wake. In the main this
is correct, but it is established that there are
exceptions. l believe the sleeper who awal;
ened so find his friend dead dreamed IS 10
awoko. He may not have slept more than n
second. Sir Benjamin Brodi, relates Of Lord
Holland: 'On one occasion when be was
fatigued, while listening to friend reading
aloud he feel asleep, and had a dream, the
particulars Of which it would have occupied
him Il quarter Of an hour or longer 20 express
in writine. After he awolie be found that lie
Remembered tho beginning Of ono sentence,
while he actually heard the latter part Of the
sentence Immediately following it, 50 that
probably the whole time during which he
slept did not occupy moro than few Sec
ouds"
Last summer, where | now write, [ was en-
gagged. An caSy-gOing lOafcr came in. |
continued to read or write. He placed his
chair against the wall and fell asleep. l ac-
cidentaliy knocked u book off the table He
jumped nearly out of his chair and thanked
me for awakinr him from n troubled dream,
which he was engaged in a fight. 4 pistol
Y lot had Just been fired, he said. This man
mad been in5olyed III lis ungovcrned passion
IN a petty quarrel lie was brOoding over it;
expected to shoot some ono or get shot. Had
told me a short time before. The noiSc of the
falling book caused him to dream of The
fight with pistols, also awakened HIM from a
'rcam that seemed TO him to extend over
Dnsderahie ,imc. [ knew it was only the
fractional part Of Il second.
COLEEIDGE'S "KUGLA KHAN"
Coloridcc's "Kubla Khan was fragment
of 200 or 80 lines that he dreamed after
reading in his chair: Here the Khan kubla
commanded palace to be built" etc. Tar
TIM composed the Devils Sonata" while
dreaming. II ii is objected that ali this
could not lie done in the fractional par: OF q
second Of time. | would answer: What Is the
experience OF him whose life is suddenly I'M
periled! y flash" of tho mind illumines tho
whole life that is past. thought I would be
Tiled by a horse running away with me-.
ONE years ago. Though well occupied in
controlling the brute, flying as the wind
long a dangerous locality, my mind swept
more rapidly over scenes from childhood on
over thirty years. and failed not to fee into
my very pocket to noto letter, with a favor
able answer, From the girl left behind me-"
received by that morning. n0il-au this as l
plunged through few seconds toward death.
A lifetime compressed into time too short TO
reckon.
Locke says: III tho soul doth think in
sleeping man, without being conscious Of it,
/ ask whether, during such thinking, it has
any pleasure or pain, or is capable of happi-
ness or miseryf While l would prefer to
turn Locke over 20 Cousin, Reid, Dugald
Stewart, Hamilton, Mn, Brown or Fcrrier,
yet, remembering that Locke died il l1Ci, |
venture to answer in the affirmative. Who
has not awakened in tears Whose soul hes
not suffered il sleep? Who has not had his
mind, soul, spirit ticlled By some odd fancy
while sleeping. and been awakened conyulsed
with laughter. Who has not seen the babe,
crowned with tho age Of 4 day, smile seraph-
ically rs al angels wing brushed a dream
over its Inmate illast"-Drummond Burch
In Courier-JouEc2al.
A Poet in = Sunny Mood
Mr. Lo2.-fcilcw o2ce sat in Il Boston street