Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-29
SLEEP AND DREAMS.

SLEEP AND DREAMS.
Independent Action Oh the Brain During
Unconsciousness.
In order to go with sincerity to the
bottom of things, it is necessary 20
know the nature of thought, and how
it is born and multiplied in the brain.
Unfortunately we arc here reduced to
comparisons, to approximations A
soon as q sensitive impression reaches
the brain, it il Immediately received
with its recognized characteristics. and
awaAens a certain number of ideas
which are attached to it by the rela-
tions of casualty, coincidence. simili-
tude; by the conception of causes. the
foreseeing of effects. the veri6cations
of resemblance or of varied af6nities.
These ideas in their turn arouse others.
manner one after the other. Each Of
these is accompanied by different
sentiments, more or less intense.
Of fear. hope. anger, disgust, de-
sire, etc. Alone and simple at the
outset, where it is born to state
| of simple perception of sensible
Impression, it is extended. modified,
sometimes completely transformed, in
every case multiplying but by degrees
becoming weaker. After having been
several times depressed and raised up
again, it loses little by little in intensi-
ty according to the measure with which
it has gained in extent; after which it is
spent with the energy contained in
itself and the cells which it has put in
motion 1t is very rare for an idea to
thus run its entire course without inter
| ruption, Almost always a new impress
sion is produced during the course of
| the first, which turns the attention to
itself and momentarily interrupts the
course of the preceding, which is not
arrested, but only suspended, and re-
turns later. if nothing opposes it New
sensitive impressions are again pro-
duced which take their place, and in
| their turn oppose those which succee
| them as they opposed those which pre-
coded. Each interferes in some
| way with the others turning them
aside, arresting or reinforcing them.
according to the meaning of the
| encounter. Each is compelled to sub
NIT. at given moment, to passing or
! definite prohibition, after which it re-
awakens, as an elastic substance re-
it. One understands, that while awake
the continual production of new i'm
pressions leaves little opportunity to
| preceding ones to renew their INSTRUCTED
| evolution. Thousands of impressions
| are thus every day relegated almost
| from the moment of their birth to the
| domain of oblivion. Only a small num-
| Der, on account of the interest which
| they have for us, or the vivacity of the
sentiments which they awaken, have
the power to force themselves upon us,
and to monopolize attention to the ex-
| clusion of the others When the hour
of sleep comes the fatigued brain
moves more and more slowly !;
the sensitive impressions, dimin-
ished by the closing of the eye
| lids, by the silence of the sleeping room,
are perceived gently, and arouse only
confused ideas Finally the conscious
ness of living is lost or sleeps Then,
! freed from this temporary restraint, the
| cerebral impressions arouse themselves:
the obstructed ideas, released from the
weight of new impressions, born with
out cessation, resume their interrupted
course, and wage a conflict between
| themselves only. Is it not natural that
the most restrained should now have
bent springs, and small spring, that
| has reached it's utmost expansion, is
more powerful than larger one which
has almost regained its position of in
ertia- The large springs are our strong
| impressions, our la glorious thoughts
| whose energy we have almost exhausted
| in developing them to their limit: the
| small ones are the thousand nothingS.
| driven back because we have something
| better with which to occupy ourselves
Or compressed by the weight of things
more important These obstacles re-
| moved, they are able to relax, and man
ifest an unexpected energy. Such is
| the origin of our dreams; this is the
reason why one impression FREEDOM
mates over mother during sleep; this
| the explanation of that paradoXical fact
! that we dream oftenest of things for
eign to our strongest and most vivid
| ideas.-Chicago Saturday Evening Her
| aid
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edge of Valenciennes lace fully finger
| wide surrounding the open hem. The
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| embroidery in the corner of handker-
chiefs has come in again Handker-
chiefs with colored borders are fashion
able, but not SO chic as those with
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All around the edge of the square put a
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