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

ISuareh Reason sleeps, this mimic wakes,
vVaHPOunds a medley Of diSioinied things.
Milton says that when
mature rests, and Reason
Retires into her private cell
on IN her absence mimic Fancy wakes
To initiate her, but misioining shapes
Wild work produces.
tln waking life" wrote Aristotle, eve
all have u world in common, but in dreams
each one has q world of his own" SIR
Walter Scott styled dreams "the deceptions
Of imagination when reason drops the
reins" az know" 8 " 0ldbuek, mo
difference between them aud the hSllueina-
tionsof madness; the unguardsd horses run
away with the carrisgts in both cases, only
in the one the eOaehman Is dunk, in the
other he slumbers."
Ia the dreaming state there is . suspen-
; sion of will control over the thought cur
rent which flows on in ineoherent series;
there is q trAyesty of reason, and theincon-
gruities Of the dream tissue are not cor
reeted by Judgment. Attention and re1ec-
ton are wanting. DR.. johnson had q con-
test of wit in a dream. Said he:
ssNow one may mark the effect OF sleep
III rcakeuiGg psAsetiOn; tor had not m
Judgment failed mel should have seen that
the wit of this supposed antagonist, by
whose apparent superiority / felt my self
mortified, was "a much furnished by me as
that / had been uttering in my own char
acter."
From what sources is the dream food
supplied? Commonly from two, namely,
revived rssidus of concepts perceived dur
ing 8 recent waking state and stored In the
memories and immediate sensory impress
sions transmitted by the end organs. Tue
frequency of the fitSt-the survival offresh
events-has been marked by Cicero and
Lueretius:
What fills mems minds when they dream
O'ernight:
The lawyers plead, the warriors fight,
The sailors think Of storms.
MarcutiO tells how lovers dream of love,
cOuriiers of suits, lawyers Of fees, parsons
of another henefee, and soldiers Of cutting
foreign throats, OF breaches and ambuscs-
does. The dreams of animals would seem
20 be of the same order. Lueretius des-
eribss racers starting in their sleep, as II
z for the course; baying, painting
hounds, with quiyeriug limbs, pursuing,
in the minds eye, the stag; the house dog,
asleep on the hearth, growlinga and barking
at the supposed intrusion of 8 stranger.
So Scott, in the Lay Of the Last Min
~strel:"
The stag houuds, weary With the chase,
Lay stretched upon the rushy door,
And urged, in dreams, the forest race.
Hounds in sleep, according to Chaucer,
twill open for the prey, " and Dryden says:
Little birds in sleep their songs repeat.
The contents of = dream, taking shape
and tone from abiding experiences, are
often an odd motley; ill-matching thoughts,
past or late. mSdly jostle n another,
tumbling dubbed into the stream Of fancy
Such stuff
~Ns~s dreams are made on
In the second series present sensory sx-
citations furnish and suggest material,
which is usually absurdly TRANSPORTED.
Here the sensations are not, as in the wax
ing state, graduated to the stimulus, but
often groteequely heightened. These
dreams are in terms of touch, hearing,
smell, taste, sight. The great area Of the
complex taetual sense gives it first place
as q factor from space capacity to receive
-e4crraut -s-nd modification of the sensi-
Nbility of he skin, or the accident of an I'M
usual stimulus, as the ENHANCEMENT OF the
hands or toes in the bedelOthes, may pro-
woke Q dream imsge, whimsical and in
dimension grossly clad" but plainly sug-
gested. SiuOn dreamed of a dice OF huge
bulk; waking, he found that he held part
of the sheet, twisted in such q way "a TO
give the notion Of q cubic body about the
sizs OF the dice pictured in his sleep.
The sense of hearing has the next place
In bSgetting dream freaks from physical
factors. The writer recently dreamed of a
thunderstorm; no lightning WAS seen, bat
peal after peal heard, the last awakening
him, when he found q garbage cart goin9
by in the street, with its rattliDg, pOund-
ing noise. Music played near the sleeper
has suggested n dream of q concert Of
seraphs The interesting experiments Of
Provost, D'Hervey and Msury show the
influence OF irritants coming through the
inlets of the senses Of smell and taste in
causing dream forms. The OdOr Of cologne
water carried NJ, Maury to the shop o.
Farms, at Cairo. Burning q match under
his nOstrils sent him TO sea in a vessel
whose powder room blew up.
Bodily ailments and noxious humors
that inEest the blood give rise to and Shape
dreams, the perverted sensations belnG
@seizNd upon by hszy consciousness and
rss. ny. An eminent writer relates thst
when young he was fO1do of bookso Of travel
Oae night, after reading, he dreamed h
WAS aboard q vessel anchored of q foreign
coast. After a quarrel with his captain
thew both went ashore to settle tie matter.
Thrice the captains ball struck him IL
thu same spot in the forehead, yet he did
not fall. After the third fire he Rwoke,
and found that he was suffering from
severe neurological the point mis- ~antagonist':
ball had entered.
Chaucer declares that dreams
Are from repletion and complexion bred,
From rising fumes OF indigested food.
SO Monkbarns aeeoppts for The professor
disturbed sleep:
Considering that the Ilustrissimus ate
a pound and = half.of eOlopS, smoked elk
pipes. drank ale and brandy in proportion,
lam not surprised at his having a ht Of
the nightmare"
Some dreams hardly belong to either Of
these series and seem the spontaneous
minting offancy. But tn Sc, too, probably
~~u 3 physical basis, the impressions haV'
some time or other, stolen unawares
" brain and been stored IN the
Hes, md suddenly popped out IN
% in some mad attire. LOyel's dream
1.-THE Antiquary" is of this sort. He
tells Oidbuck that in the nights dream he
had been shown words that he did not re-
member ever having seen, The laird re,
piles that he had read the very words aloud
during the evening, adding: Your mind
was BENT else where, but your ear mechan-
ically received and maintained the sounds,
and your busy fancy, stirred by Grizep'
legend, introduced this scrap into your
dream"
Sometimes there is a projection back
ward, and
Forgotten things, long cast behind,
Rush forward in the brain and come 10 mind.
Common sense aud memory are mistrust
ed when we see and take with those We
know have been long dead, and they with
rs:
Strange dream that gives a dead man leave tC