Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-08-05

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:. CONSERVATION snd memory
.nauy dreams ''come like q shadow,
so depart" leaving no trace, as circles
made by the stone thrown toto the pond.
Aristotle. Deseartes, Sir Heury Holland and
Others, following the Traditional metaphy-
sizes, hold that percipience never fails, and
that dreaming is always going on during
sleep. Lord BSougham argues that we
dream only IN the transit OF sleep to wax
log, or the contrary, or when sleep Is
loosened, or, in dream terms, before or
after the hminal intensity is reached; or,
as Luckie Eispeth puts it before folk
win the lo5e sleep and the sound" Some
persons claim they never dream, but we
know how soon q dream remembered on
waking passesfrom our memory, and small
faith is to be given 10 such testimony.
Richard Baxter and Sir Wil]iam Hamilton
said they always awoke dreaming Those
who, like Panza, never wish for q second
sleep, because the first lasts from night to
morning, are not likely to remember their
dreams, il they should happen.
That ''cerebration" goes on in dreams
we have abundant proof. Sir Thomas
Browne wrote: I'm one dream / can COM
pose . whole comedy, behold thu action,
apprehend the rests, and laugh myself
awake ut the cnnceits thereof. Were my
memory as faithful as my reason is then
htful, / would never study but in my
dreams" Dc. Franklin assured Cabanis
that the bearing of political events which
puzzled him when awake was clearly IN
folded to him in his dreams. Condorcet
perfected in q dream the solution of a diff
icult problem; Condillac, while writing
his ''Cours d'Etydes,n developed many
subjects, broken off before retiring dream
ing then over. Voltaire dreamed q whole
csnto Of the "Henriade," Maignan the
truth of his theorems, and Kruger worked
out complicated questions. Tartini, in
sleep, heard the arch iend play his eele-
brated sonata, which he wrote down on
awakening: Hermas said his Pastor"
was dictated to him by q voice while he
slept; Coleridge, in sleep, composed "Kubla
Kahu," aud Robert Louis Stevenson tells
US that his brownies do half his work dur
ing sleep, and that he dreamed the win
dow scene in "Dt. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde"
The story that Kasper Hauser told the cob
bier who discovered him, was, ifnot q pure
invention, probably dreamed.
1t the thory Of sleep afore given be q
true u or eyen in the right direction
and il is the only one by which many OF
the phenomena Of sleep and dreams can be
explained-there is. nothing strange in
latent cerebration, and in the brain being
always ~populous of images. II we suppose
the cell groups varicusly conditioned dur
ing sleep, some empty and undergoing re-
pair, others tsnanted, but in the shadow
of repose; others, again, in the bright light,
teeming, full of life, We can understand
how creation can 90 on by yicarious and
alternate energy Of the various clusters.
In dreaming the swiftness of thought,
aud the rapidity Of sense perceptions are
somewhat marvellous. PROFESSIONS that
would occupy an hour to pass in the real
world, 90 by in q few seconds, and years
are curdled into moments, Is in persons in
instant danger of death.
Somniloquy is, probably, always an out
come of dreaming. This term does no
mean the rambling word or words that
bubble ont in sleep, but Ineligible sen
fences, often telling Of the rude eommotion
that makes the nights dismay.
Indieioque sui facti Persae ne fuere.
when injected minds
To their deaf pillows willdiSCharge their secrets
the unpackiug in words of a guilty conscience.
standardization is an acted dream and
Authorizations are dreams Of waking life.
Hermann and DR.. ]. Jastrow have
studied the dreams Of the blind, and found
that such as lose their sight before 5 to Z
years-the critical binding age-never
dream in visual terms, while those who
become blind after this period all have
dream vision. DR. Jastrow believes, from
date furnished by the examination OF 200
blind that they dream less than the sighted,
and most in terms Of hearing; next, from
sensations furnished by touch, their master
sense; and q few in terms Of taste and
smell. Reading the raised type with the
finger never happens in thsil dreams. The
boys dream OF playing, RAINING, jumping,
and 30 on; the men of broom-makmg Tin
terms of motion and feeling, and no OF
sight, piano-tuning, teaching, and 40 on;
the girls and women Of sewing, fscy and
household work, etc.
The dreams of the deaf mute are still a
virgin field. Professor G.. Stanley Hall
has studied the dream life OF Laura Bridg-
man. He says her sleep is constant dream,
ing. The t~actusl- motor sensations, by
which she receives her mind food and com.
m~unicates with her fsllow-beings, and gets
her Knowledge fthe external world, chiefly
supply her dream food. She will suddenly
talk a few words with her fogsrs, too rap
idly and too imperfectly to be understood,
never making q sentence. All the people
that enter into beI dreams talk with theiI
fingers. Sight aud hearing terms are ab'
sent, or, strictly speaking, vague, and
more likely to be akin impressions-heat
and Jar. In her journal the terms of sight
she uses show greatlimitstions Of her notion
of this sense. She speaks of hearing with
her feet: 81 placed o little chair before
me, 1 put the musical box on it, so could
feel it play with my feet"