Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-01-30
| THE, MIND IN SLEEP.
Mental Activity During the Sea-
son OF Slumber.
Instances OF the Action OF tho Brain
Forces While the Bodily SonsoS
Wore ASIsep-SOme Strange
Sensations.


Sir William Hamilton declares says the
New York Sunday Journal, that the
mind is never wholly inactive, and that
VIC arc never entirely unconscious of it's
activity. Jouffroy 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
VIC have not dreamed.
-. How many dreams leave only the
faintest trace on the memory! 1t is,
therefore, permitted to suppose that
many dreams leave no trace at all.
Kant said that we always dream when
asleep, and that to cease to dream would
be to cease to live. People who talk
OF dreamlcss sleep use an expression
which really is at variance with facts;
tho mind works on, works ever.
When any one is engaged on q pro-
longed enterprise, like great boook,
tho building OF an edifice, the conduct
of military campaign, tho negotiation
OF valuable contract, he not only fire.
Quently dreams of his work, but the
mind dreams of it at times when tho
memory does not record it distinctly.
This is tho Unconscious cerebration"
which has worn out so many brains and
wrecked so many careers.
When Sir Walter Scott was writing
his great series of historical novels ho
recorded in his diary that whenever he
came to difficult place, where his char
a3tcrs seemed to be in an inextricable
situation, he wal ted patiently until the
next morning, when on awakening, tho
solution of tho whole trouble would
como into his mind.
This was because the unconscious
cercbration," which in time was to use
up tho splendid brain, had been going
on all night solving the difficulty while
the authors body was allowed to take
rcpose.
Sometimes the body is influenced by
Its surroundings, or by certain scnsa-
tions which penetrate through the vail
of slccp-so that tho mind INDUCES in
pranls, such as afflicted good DR.. Greg
DRY.
his wise man had bottle of hot
water put at his feet on going to bed
one cold night. Presently he burned
lis toes SO severely that lie dreamed lie
was climbing Mount Etna and that his
foot, breaking through tho volcanic
oOll' "tN III lOG ava.
When he awokc and found that tho
s'ater bottle was the cause Of the dream,
he at once regarded it as q curious in
stance of tho effect of the sense of touch
in dreams.
His case was like that of another doc
tor, who, having had his head blisrercd,
fell asleep and dreamed that he was be-
ing scalped by Indians.
Another instance OF tho association Of
tho sensation OF touch with dreams was
that OF Western pioneer who, being in
camp one night wrapped in his blankets,
dreamed that he was climbing tho
sldc OF an iceberg, and that his face
was panied by coming in contact with
tho ice.
Presently no awokc with n start and
found that tho cold nose Of wolf was
touching his cheek.
A French scientist once experimental
on himself by operating on his mind,
through the sense of touch, while hc was
asleep
He left his knees uncovered whom he
won't to bed one cold night and dreamed
that he was riding on stage coach in o
terrible tempest, during which no SUI.
1cred terribly from cold knees
Surroundings often give tho primal
Impulse to tho mind, so that when it
dreams it is merely carrying out an i'm
preston partly formed by tho bodily
Aenso before the body foil asleep.
1HE promoters Of tho Watltin Tower
haVo under consideration n proposal
which, though it is somewhat surpest.
Two OF Jules Verne. is submitted bv n
"eil-known engineer. and is said to bo
quite practicable. The tower is to no
not less than 1000 feet nigh, consider.
IDLY ioftier than its prototype at Paris,
At TINS atmospheric level the air, oven
over london, Is absolutely pure, and it
s proposed that by means OF machinery
specially devised for the purpose, o SUP.
ply Oh fresh air shall be drawn to tho