Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-31
OUR DREAMS.

They Are But the Reelection OF Pr,viou.
Thought OF Action-
'slS. are such stuff as dreams ara
made of, End our little life is rounded
by sleep
Dreams have played an important
part in the worlds history, and their
nature and causes, even now. in this
day. when science reveals every long
hidden mystery. are but little under.
stood They are now believed to be the
vagrant imagination. active while tba
body sleeps, and without the restrain.
ing influence of reason.
In Holy Writ the Lord sends ara.u.
and visions to the prophets and Others
whom He wished to impress with some
purpose. and age IN and again warned
in dream" the patriarchs of old. The
Egyptians, Persians. Greeks and
sChaldeans were believers in dreams. and
complicated, indeed, was the vision
which their soothsayers could not in
terpret- always, however, in language
as enigmatlcai as the dream. and which
would bear almost any construction
that the dreamer desired to put upon it
The phenomena of dreams are numer-
Gus and varied, and, in spite of theory,
can not be well understood by the ma
iority OF people Two persons who had
not seen each other for weeks have been
known to dream the same dream upon
the same night, in one case there being
a train OF thought to which the dream
naturally led, in the other case COM
plete ignorance of the entire subject.
except a S revealed in the dream. The
wise psychologists explain such cases
BIZ the theory of ''brain waves" I'M
conscious projection into space of a
powerful mentality. and see nothing
strange or uneanny about it at all.
That dreams are the shadowy and re-
current impressions made upon the
mind that, waking, was absorbed in
other things and took no heed, is also
held by many, who regard the brain as
the sensitized plate upon which
are photographed events whose
images flash out when the proper
developing fluid is applied, just
as the images upon pho
tographic plate are called forth
That dreamer may repeat waking
impression with startling vividness is
well known, and murderers and other
criminals, in whom imagination is
developed, have been known to lose
their reason on account of being
haunted by their crime" the mind re-
producing in sleep not only images but
intense emotions.
1t is said that children under six
months old never dream, and that there
is no case on record where an individual
has dreamed of being of an opposite
sex
The Society for Psychical Research
has devoted much attention to dream
phenomena, but the information de-
duced has thrown no new light upon
the subject, and pathologists scorn the
idea of the supernatural origin of
dreams A boatman employed in the
search for Defaulter Bard's body in
Philadelphia not long ago, dreamed
that he should find it in certain spot
near a bridge, and. in spite OF the
ridicule of his companions obeyed the
directions received in the dream and
recovered the body.
Such condolences. for they are, of
course, merely condolences, occur every
day. but are unconscious cerebrations"
rather than spirit voices" or warn
ings" as believed by the superstitious-
The widest dreams of sleeping hours
are no more marvellous than the idle
reveries to which we give ourselves up
when awake, then straightway forget.
1t may be that all sleep is filed with
dreams that are forgotten, just as all
waking hours are filed with thoughts,
and that the dream of the waking in.
slant is the only one remembered.
There is case on record of an army of
fcer who fell asleep in his chair after
dinner, dreamed of planning cam
paign, marched his forces to the battle
field. being attacked and defeated. re-
gaining his position and being again de-
feated. and who awoke to find that, by
the testimony of the rest of the com
pany, he had been asleep but two min
utes Similar to this is the case of the
man who dreamed of his childhood. his
bovhood. his college days, marriage
and all the important events of long
life, in twenty minutes Kindred phe.
nomena are recorded as the experience
of people resuscitated from drowning
or while falling from a great height,
who have declared: I'm that instant
my whole life seemed spread out be-
fore me-" and it is safe to say that there
is not a single experience in a dream
that has not been duplicated in waking
moments, and that, if not actually
shadows of waking thoughts, they can
be traced directly to existing physical
and mental conditions If 1--WE are such
stuff as dreams are made Of" then we
must be composed of vain imaginings
and uncontrolled fancies, and few of US
will attempt to deny the impeachment
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