The morning call., 1891-12-27
QUEER DREAMS.
A Few Remarkable Visions of the
Sleeping Brain.

Dream vagaries are always tanglng them
selves in our brains at night. Whence do
they come? Sometimes from the thoughts
OF the day, but not always. | want to tell
you of several queer dreams that had no
connections whatever with the daily
thoughts, habits or acts Of the people that
had them.
An aged lady, who had no love for music,
no knowledge of it, nor anything in her
daily life to remind her Of it, dreamed one
night that she was girl again. That she
had an absorbing love for music and for
praoticing 1t, but that having no piano she
had no means of gratifying her desire
A friend told her that there was in the
town large and handsome house, In which
stood magnificent piano, which she was at
liberty to use whenever she desired. The
house, for some reason, was unoccupied,
save that certain hour every afternoon
three ghostly personages appeared and took
possession of it until the next morning. She
was warned of this that she might be care
full to leave before that hour.
Urged by her passionate fondness for
music she overcame her fears and went fire.
Quently to the house, leaving always before
the specified time. On one occasion, inter-
ested in what she was playing she forgot
the hour.
Suddenly realizing that it was past she
looked up and saw advancing toward her,
down long corridor, a group of three per-
sons-an elderly lady, in robes of sweeping
black, leaning upon the arm of young
woman dressed in palest blue. who led by
the hand sunny-haired. white robed child
She attempted to flee, but they moved
toward her, not walking. but gliding for
ward with wonderful Iapidity. As they
reached her the elder lady spoke, saying
kindly:
do not be afraid of u.s. We are only
spirits without bodies. We cannot harm
you, nor would we il we could. Continue
your music; we love il Also"
In her terror she awoke.
Why should one with neither knowledge
nor love Uf music have dream SO filled
with it?
A farmers wife, who had never seen a
body of water larger than the spring branch
IN which her weekly washing was done,
dreamed that she stood upon the shore of a
vast and limltleSs NXpanse of water. Across
1t came sailing toward her a ship, shrouded
black from bow TO stern, from the water
edge to the topmost mast. Upon the side, in
letters OF glaring white, was the one word,
death.
No sign of life was about the ship, but
when 1t touched, without sound, the sands
at her feet, two specters appeared, who
leaned over and, catching her by the arms.
endeavored 10 draw her On board. although
she felt no touch. In the struggle to keep
back she awoke.
That woman leading narrow, brooding
lie should have dream of death is natural.
But why should it take the form OF a ship
upon an ocean, when, except, perhaps that
she had seen them in schoolgirl life pic
tured in a geography, she knew absolutely
nothing of either.
a boy OF II had been promised cadetship
at West Point His dreams by day were of
nothing but army life, Indians, tomahawks,
cavalry charges and the other warlike scenes
that charm boys fancy.
One night whila nranorino for hiS AVIAN,
inatlon, after several hours work upon a
difficult mathematical problem. he went to
sleep and dreamed that his father had
moved to Scotland and bought flock of
sheep and shepherds dog; that his father
called him and gave him crook, saying:
My son, take this and the dog and 20 to
the woods and mind the Sheep"
As he was leaving his mother handed him
half knitted stocking, telling him that he
could finish 1t while watching the sheen.
Calling the dog he had followed the sheen
aud spent the day minding them and in
knitting
why should boy, whose waking thoughts
held nothing but war, have his sleeping
ones revert to the most peaceful of all occu-
pations?
A man whose calling is that of engineer
on dangerous road filed with lofty tresties
and double trestles spanning deep gorges,
and who works always in a strain OF anx-
| lefty, says that his most frequent dreams
| are OF flowers and murmuring water, of
| songs and pictures and all beautiful things,
where the cares of the day do not come.
] An opera singer whose whole life was