West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1891-05-14
THE HIND In SLEEP.
Eontal Activity During tina soa~
son CT E.umber.
Iossnnocs or tho Action of tbs Erain
Forces whno tho Bodily senaes
We're As.scp-soue strange
Sensations.


What "a n dream?
Simply the working OF too mind while
the body is asleep.
The mind docs not need sleep; Of
! least. In good health, It never takes A..
Sir William Hamilton declares gays tho
New York Sunday Journal, that tho
mind 10 nevor wholly inactive, and that
VIC arc never entirely unconscious OF It's
activity. JouGroy is quoted az denying
that during bodily sleep the mind is
dormant. Even IL we do not remember
our dreams, no says, 1t IS no proof that
we have not dreamed.
How many dreams leave only tho
faintest trace on tho memoryl IL IS,
therefore. permitted to suppose that
many dreams leave no trace 81 all.
Eant said that VIC alwayG dream when
asleep, and that 70 cease TO dream would
be 70 coace TO live. People who talk
OF drcemiess sleep use an expression
which really 10 at variance with facts;
the mind works on, works over.
Whom any ono IS engaged on a pro-
iongcd enterprise, like great boook,
tho building OF an edifice, the conduct
OF military campaign, tho negotiation
OF valuable contract, he not only fro
quently dreams OF his work, but the
mind dreams OF IL at times whom tho
memory does not record IL distinctly.
This Is the unconscious cercbration"
which has worn out so many brains and
wrecked so many careers.
When Sir Walter Scott was writing
his great sefies OF historical novels no
recorded in his diary that Whenever he
came 10 difficult place, where his char
a;ters seemed to be in an incxtricable
situation, be wal ted patiently until the
noxt morning, when on awakening, tho
solution OF the whole trouble would
come into his mind.
This was because the "unconscious
corebratiol." which In time was to use
mp tho splendid brain, had been going
on all night. solving the difficulty while
tho authors body was allowed to take
reposc.
Sometimes the body Is influenced by
its surroundings, or by certain sensa-
tons which penetrate through the vail
OF sleep-so that tho mind INDUCES in
pranl,s, such as afflicted good DR.. Greg
orr.
his wise man had bottle OF hot
water nut at bis feet on going 10 bed
one cold night Presently no burned
his toes so severely that be dreamed he
was chnbing Mount Etna and that his
feet breaking through the volcanic
soil, were burned In hot lava.
Whom he awoko and found that the
water bottle was the cause OF the dream.
he at once regarded &c as q curious in.
Stance of the effect Of tho sense of touch
in dreams.
Ills case was like that OF another doc
tor, who, having had his head blistered,
Toll asleep and dreamed that he was be-
Ing scalped by Indians.
Another instance Of tho association of
the sensation OF touch with dreams was
that Of n Western pioneer who, bcinp I'm
camp one night wrapped in his blankets.
dreamed that he was climbing the
side of an iceberg, and that his fnco
was pained by coming In contact with
the ice.
Presently he awolSe with start and
found that the cold nose of wolf was
touching his cheek.
French scientist once experimental
on himself by operating on his mind,
through the sense of touch, while he was
asleep.
lie lett has knees uncovered whom he
went to bed one cold night and dreamed
that he vas riding on stage coach in
terrible tempest during which he suf-
ferod terribly from cold knoes
Surroundings often give the primal
impulse 10 tho mind, so that whom it
dreams IL Is merely carrying out en- i'm
preston partly formed by the bodily
sense before the body foil asleep