Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-12-01

to all people-fafling from a precipice,
down, down, TO some unfathomed gulf
striving to walk upon floor that sinks
horribly beneath the feet-endeayoring,
In urgent haste, to put on garments that
drop of, turn wrong side out, and de-
velop other impish opensities-riding
In coach which suddenly crumbles TO
pieces, and leaves one staring irs~the
road. So TO speak, il is marked pec,.> :,
liarity OF dreams that 1.-THE bottom drops
out of everything"
So rebellious are dreams, and SO cratic
in their course, that they cannot be COM
PEELED by any effort of will; wild fire
could be more easily chained. We may
long ardently to see once more, in 'the
wilderness of sleep" some beloved and
vanished face; yet this poor solace may
be denied, while alien images crowd into
the brain. Upon this subject Hazlits
wrote, Il never dream Of the face Of any
one am particularly attached 10. have
thought almost TO agony Of the same per-
son for years, nearly without ceasing, SO
as TO have her face always before me, and
to be haunted by perpetual conscious
ness OF disappointed passion, yet never
in all that time dreamt Of that person
more than once or twice, and then not
wildly" Nor can the last impression
received by the mind before slumber
overwhelmsit be calculated upon; for we
may read Of Mother Blood's execution,
and dream, Immediately afterward, of a
cabbage garden; or, transversely, we may
be Graded by the most soothing, placid
meditations, yet the weird magician,
who bears the branch Of poppieS, will
beckon us to follow through seas of gore.
Experiment has proved that dreams
may be influenced, if not controlled,
through the inlets of the senses; the thun-
der of draws upon the cobblestones sug-
gests tempest TO the dreamer, and the
fumes of sulphur or the pleasant odors Of
aromatic water near his nostrils trans
port him 10 strage countries. For this
reason the noises of awakening life give
color and movement to the visions that
chang upon the edge of day." rendering
them more real and vivid than those
which come at dead of night.
II is one of the peculiarities Of dreams
to seem TO be tending toward some stu
penduous climax, and then to turn away
with utter irrelevance. The dreamer re-
mains impeturbable in the face Of the
most astounding transformations; il ami
mails, and even inanimate objects, become
gifted with speech, he is not surprised;
yet he is likely 10 startled and terrified
by the most trifling things. II he dreams
Of being pursued, it is not by lion or
tiger, but, perhaps, let us say, by an in
distinct yellow blur, lowering near the
ground like d will-o'-the-wisp-unspeak-
ably sinister to his fancy-darting from
thickets, and gliding in and out among
the trees.
It is somewhat disenchanting to realize
hat dyspepsia is one of the prime factors
IN dream making II matters little
whether the conscience be clear, IL the
digestion be not in equally good case.
Most people have experienced the excita-
ton, the supesensitiveness Of every
faculty, brought about by febrile con-
dition of the blood-the lightness Of head
and LIMB. extending, as one fancies,
even to the loss of gravity-the strange,
unfamiliar aspect assumed by well known
objects about the room; for fever, like
Indigestion, is fertile breeder of phan-
tasms. New Orleans Times Democrat.