The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-02-14
SIGNIFICANT DREAMS.

SIGNIFICANT DREAMS.
The tx PLANTATION offered of Som CuriOu
Phenomena.
Dreaming Is an experience which may bt
called common to humanity, though il
| varies so widely in different individual.
that in few exceptional cases it is abso
lutely unknown. Certainly dreams arr
often made of materials very Inadequate
to their finished results. Scientific writers
admit that there is type of dream by
which coming physical disease or disaster
IS Swallowed forih-some bodily sensation
perhaps too slight to be noticed by the
subject when awake, yet contriy!ng 10
/ impress itself in some symbolic form on
the slee ping mind. The more striking in.
stances of this sort may serve to explain
how, in some lesser degree. certain sym
| bols are likely to attach themselves to GER
tain painful sensations or conditions. until
at last they are finally accepted as mys,
| ferrous presages of evil.
/ H.,
| dreamed that he was bitten on the left
side by a venomous serpent. In short
| time severe carbuncle appeared on The
very spot, terminating his life in the space
| of three days. Another scientific man
who dreamed of being bitten by black
cat. also suffered in the sane way. A
learned jurist, author of many erudite
theological works, saw. one night in his
sleep, a man laying his hand upon his
chest, who announced to him that he
| would soon die. lie was then in perfect
health. but was shortly carried off by a
pulmonary disorder A lady who had
dream in which she saw all objects dim
and obscnred by mist. was soon after at
tackled by disease of the eye, of which
that was symptom. A dream Of great
fire, in which the sleeper himself seemed
to be consumed, was followed soon after
by at attack of Inflammation of the brain,
Apoplexy, epilepsy, and similar diseases
are often preceded by frightful dreams, in
| which the sleeper feels himself scaped by
Indians, thrown oyer precipices, or torn
to pieces by wild beasts. Such
Miserable nights
so Iull or fearful dreams, of ugly sightsi
sho aid be treated as 'Warnings' In the
truest sense of that word-as sent by ma
tire to foretel impending evils which
skill and wisdom may be able to avert.
Thus. ii science has dispelled such old
wives fables as that to dream of mar
riage signilied "a death, or to dream of
cat meant to meet a foe. she has GER
| tainly added mysteries and terrors of her
own to the subject. One learned man has
| actually tried to sympathize with these
premonltions-to make them more avail
| able for use and guidance. In his opinion.
Lively dreams in general are sign of
| the excitement Of nervous action.
Soft dreams are sign of slight irritation
OF the head; often in nervous feyers an /.
n1uncing the approach of a favorable
| crisis
Frightful dreams are a sign of determi.
nation of blood to the head.
| Dreams about blood and red objects are
signs OF inflammatory conditions.
Dreams Of distorted forms are frequent.
| ly a sign Of distractions AID diseases Of
the liver.
Dreams in which the patient imagines
torture or injury of any limb indicate dis
ease in that limb
Dreams about death often precede apo
plexy which is connected with determi-
nation of blood to the head.
/ HER TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
An educated and very sensible lady had
been through rather fatiguing social day.
| On retiring to bed she soon fell asleep and
| presently dreamed that an old man clothed
in black approached her, holding out an
iron crown apparently of enormous weight.
| AS lie drew near she recognized the fea.
lures of her father. who had been dead for
many years. He addressed her thus: ''My
daughter, during my lifetime | was forced
to wear this crown. Death relieved me
| Of the burden, but it now desceDds to you. :"
| He placed it on her head and gradually
disappeared. Immediately she felt a
weight and tightness about her brow.
/ Further, to add to her torture, the rim of
the crown was studded on the inside with
sharp points, which wounded her forehead
SO that blood ran down her face. She
awoke. agitated and excited, but otherwise
| quite well, and found that she had been
asleep little more than half an hour, On
falling asleep again the dream was re-.
peated, with the additional circumstance
that the apparitlon of her father now re-.
preached her for her unWillingness 10
wear the crown. When she awoke again
she found size had been asleep for three
hours. Again she returned to bed. and
the dream was repeated in broad daylight.
| She now arose and made her toilet
| Going over the circumstances of her
dream, she recollected having heard her
father say that during bis yoath, spent in
distant land, he had been subject to cpl
! leptic COMMISSIONS consequent on an acct
| dent, and that he had been cured by the
operation of trephaning.
| On sister entering her room she pro.
ceeded to narrate the picturesque vision
which had, naturally, made such an im-
preston OH her memory. While thus en-
gagged she suddenly gave a shrek. became
unconscious, and fell upon the floor in true
epileptic commissions, though the attack
was but slight one. A week afterward
the dream Was repeated, and was followed
| by another attack. Under suitable treat
ment both dream and attack ceased to
| ieaur
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