The Meeker herald., 1891-02-07
THE MIND IN SLEEP.
Mental Activity During tho Boa
son OF Siumber.
Inssssess 81 the Action Of the brsia
Yoress While the bodily s~nsss
Were Asis~p-sos,s strange
Bens Atlons.

What Is dream?
Simply the working of tho mind while
the body is asleep.
The mind does not need sleep. at
least, In good health, It never take, II.
Sir William Hamilton declares says tho
New York Sunday Journal, that the
mind Is never wholly inactive, and that
We are never entirely unconscious OF it,
activity. Joui'roy Is quoted as denying
that during bodily sleep tho mind Is
dormant Even II We do not remember
our dreams. he says. It Is no proof that
we have not dreamed.
How many dreams leave only tho
faint.st trace on the memory. 1t IL,
therefore. permitted to suppose that
many dreams leave no trace At all.
Kant said that We always dream whom
asleep, and that to cease 10 dream would
be Ia ceas. To live. People who talk
OF dreamlcss sleep use an expression
which really /, at variance with facts;
the mind works on, works ever.
When any one &, engaged ON pro-
longcd enterprise, like u great booos,
the building Of an odiilcc, the conduct
OF military campaign. III. negotiation
OF u valuable contract, ho not only irc'
qucntly dreams of his work, but the
mind dreams of It a, times when tho
memory does no, record IL distinctly.
This 4, tn. unconscious c"rcbration"
which has worn out 80 many brain, and
wrecked 70 many careers.
When Sir Walter Scot, was writing
his frca, s"rlcs o! historical novel, h.
recorded In hi, diary that Whenever ho
cam. To difficult place. where his char
a.t.rs seemed to b" In an in"rirlr.blc
situation. he waited patiently until tho
next morning, when on awakening. the
solution OF the whole trouble would
come Into his mind.
This vas because III. ''uncousrioa,
ccrchrs,ion." which In time was to use
up the splendid brain. bad been going
on all night solving the difficulty whiio
the authors holy WAS allowed 10 ,aso
roposs.
Sometimes III" body Is Influenced by
Its surroundings. or hy certain s"nSa'
tions which penetrate through the vail
OF slccp-sy that til" mind iniuls-s In
pFank,. such a. afflicted good Dr.. Grey.
osy.
This wise man had loi;i. Of ho,
water put At his feet on going Ia bel
one cold night. Presently ho burned
his toe, 10 severely that hc dreamed hc
was climbing Mount Eina and ,ha, his
foo', breaking through tho volcanic
soil, we're burned In hot lava.
When lac awoko aud found ,ha, tho
water bottle va. the caus" Of the dream,
he =, once regarded II a. curious la.
.,.s-. at ,h.. .u.-.s ..s ~. -.s--r ot .',san
In dr~am..
His case ras iik. tina, Of another doc.
tor. who. having had hi. head biistrr-d.
foil asleep and dreamed that he was be-
ing -caipci by Indians.
Another Instance Of III. association ci
the sensation Of touch with dreams was
that o! Western pioneer NhO. being In
camp ono nigh, wrapped In his blankets,
dreamed that he was climbing tho
side Of an Iceberg. and that his face
was paincd by coming In contact with
the I,r.
Presently he awokc with start and
found that the cold nos. Of ~vI! VAS
touching his check.
A French scientist once experimental
on himself by operating on his mind.
through the sense of touch. while h. was
asleep.
lie loft his knees uncovered when hn
wen, to bed on" cold night and dreamed
that h" was riding ON q stage coach In a
terrible tempest, during which ho sui.
fcrcd terribly from cold knees
Surroundings often give the primal
impulse to tho mind. so that when It
dreams 1, Il merely carrying out al i'm.
preston partly FORMED by tho bodily
sonso b.tos. the body foil asleep.