Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1893-10-07
DREAMS THAT COME.
STRANGE FANTASIES OF THE DAY
TROUBLE US IN SLEEP.

xu0l li1uStTtlte II 4sem1rk Made
by an Illustrious Understandable TX
periences In Sleep.
A lawyer who had been oyerworked
rose in his sleep. went into the hall of
his house and discharged a pistol. The
household hurried to the place and
found him at the head of the stairway,
awake. but much bewildered. He had
dreamed Of burglars and had gone to at
tack them. One member of the family
slept through the noise. When he came
into the dining room-before he had
heard of the events of the night-he com
planned that his sleep had been much
disturbed. He had dreamed that he had
been condemned to be shot, that he Lid
been led to the place of execution an.,
had fallen senseless when the guns ,,.s,
fired.
y lady dreamed that a man came into
her room. poured some water into aba
sin, carried the splashing water to he1
bedside and began to sprinkle it over hcr
She :lwoke and heard a loud splas,lirg
At first she was motionless with fear
but presently she lighted candle and
went to the basin, where she found Ii
mouse making frantic efforts to get out
of the water.
Another dreamed that sho had sc.
we're earache. that she rose, urlccked
door that separated her room from one
in which two children slept and went
to shelf where was lotion which she.
applied to her ear. When she awokc,
she found herself in her own bed and
without pain. The door was still
locked, but in a few minutes one of the
children began to cry that his ear ached,
and she rose and went to the shelf for
the lotion.
A young man dreamed that he was in
his Office, busy with troublesome esti
mate. when a woman came in with a
screaming baby and began to walk rap
idly up and down the room. so that it
was impossible for the calculator to re-
member his figures. Presently the wo-
man thrust the child into his arms. and
he was so startled by this that he awoke.
but the screams still troubled his ears.
for mother i'll a neighboring room was
about vainly trying to quiet
crying child.
Another incident appears to be case
Of thought transference. Several years
after the deatl, of her husband a widow,
lying awake one night. recalled viv1dly |
some scenes of her husbands last illness.
Presently her daughter, who was beside
oyrn1-n oV,1 cold tknl, I
have been going over in my dreams all
the scenes of papa's Illness" She then
told her dream. in which the scenes were
almost the counterpart of those that had
been recalled by her mother.
Dreamers sometimes answer questions
and carry on more or less coherent con-
A lady had summer cottage on an
sland in Muskoka. One night her sons
we're storlnstaid on the mainland, and a
'oung English visitor went to sleep full
If apprehension that Indians might visit
he house while their protectors were
lbsent.
In the night the hostess was suddenly
'oused by some one clutching her arm
md when she opened her eyes she saw
Ter guest standing by the bedside.
"Oh, Mrs. Laughton, Mrs. Laughton.
exclaimed the girl in a hoarse whisper.
there a man at the window-an Indian
les gone to get something to climb in
w.
The next moment Eva was fumbling
bout on the floor.
"What are you doing:" asked Mrs.
4aughton.
81 have some liniment in rly valise,"
vas the answer. I'm going to get it
ut, and when be puts his head through
he window again III throw it in his
yes"
fIrs. Laughton. who was not ner- orls,
esan to laugh, but Eva paid no atten.
ion and presently asked, "W here's the
utton hooE:'
"What do you want it for:?"
why, Mrs. Laughton," said Eva
loud, and in a very indignant tone, "do
ou think would allow myself to be
cen anywhere with my shoes unbutton-
d? No man would respect that kind of
irl."
In the morning when Mrs. Laughton
woke and looked across the room to
,va's bed she saw the girl sitting up,
azing with dis1nay at her crookedly but
oned shoes in which she had slept She
ad no recollection of the remarks she
ad made in the night, and it was evi-
ent that she had been asleep all the
me. .
One night in camp l heard a peculiar
3und near the middle of the tent, and
y the dim light saw one of the camp
IS apparently trying to climb up the
.ntpole.
"What are you doing"' l asked.
"There's snake in ny bed" she an !
xered, $50 I'm &C ingto sleep up there"
''Up there!"
Eyes. why not? It viii be more COM
,rtable." 7
Then, with a sudden change of tone,
le exclaimed. Il forgot to say my pray
g." Lutinstead of kneeling she picked
er way through the tent to the foot Of
1e of the beds and lay there till morn 3
g. She did not remember the conver-
ttion of the night, but told us that she r
ad habit Of talking in her sleep, and
,st eho had offon copvovcc1 with her =.