The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-14
DREAMS THAT COME.
STRANGE FANTASIES OF THE DAY
TROUBLE US IN SLEEP.

perience> In sleep.
A lawyer who had been overworked
rose in his sleep. went into the hall OF
his house and discharged a pistol. The
household hurried 10 the place ami
found him AT the head of the stairway.
awake. Int 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 -
been led to the place of execution -
had fallen senseiess when the guns ~,
fred.
A lady dreamed that a man came iito
her ROOM. poured some water into a ba-
sin. carried the splashing water to her
bedside and began to sprinkle it over her
She awoke and heard a loud splashing.
At first she was motionless with fear,
but presently she lighted a candle and
went to the basin, where she found "A
mouse making frantic efforts to get out
Of the water.
Another dreamed that she had a Sc
we're earache. that she rose. unlocked "A
door that separated her room from one
in which two children slept and went
to a shelf where was a lotion which she
applied to her ear. When she awoke.
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 a troublesome est
mate, when Il oma caine in with a
screaming baby and began to walk rap
idly up and down the room. SO that il
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 a mother in a neighboring room was
walking about vainlv trying 10 quiet IA
CRYING child.
Another incident appears to be a case
of thought transference. Several years
after the death of her husband. "A widow,
lying awake one night, recalled vivldlv
some scenes of her husbands last illness.
Presently her daughter. who was beside
her. awoke and said, .'Oh. mamma, |
have been going over III 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
versations.
A lady had a summer cottage on all
island in Muskoka. One night her SOM
We're stormstaid on the mainland. and a
young English visitor went TO sleep full
of apprehension that Indians might visit
the house while their protectors We're
absent.
In the night the hostess was suddenly
reused by some one clutehing her arm
and when she opened her eyes she saw
her guest standing by the bedside.
''Oh, Mrs. Laughton, Mrs. Laughton "
exclaimed the girl in a hoarse whisper
''there'sa man at the window-an Indian
He's gone to get something TO climb IN
by"
The next Eva was fumbliug
about Oh the floor.
What are you doing::" asked Mrs
Laughton.
Il have some liniment in my v~alise."
was the answer. I'm going to get il
out. and when he puts his head through
the window again I'll throw it in his
eyes"
Mrs. Laughton. who was not nerrors,
began to laugh, but Eva paid no atten
ton and presently asked. Where's the
button hook
What do You van it for?'
Why, Mrs. Laughton," said Eva
aloud. and in a very indignant tone. do
you think ! would allow myself to he
seen anywhere with my shoes intuition
ed: No man would respect that kind Of
girl"
In the morning when Mrs. Laughton
awoke and looked across the room to
Eva's bed she saw the girl sitting up.
gazing with dismay at her crookedly bnt-
toned shoes in which shs had slept. She
had no recollection of the remarks she
had made III the night. and it wa evil
dent that she had been asleep all the
time.
One night / camp | heard a peculiar
sound near the middle of the tent, and
by the dim light | saw one of the camp
ers apparently trying to climb up the
tentpole.
What are you doing?' | asked.
There's a snake in my bed" she an
swered. so I'm going to sleep up there"
Up there"
Yes. why not1 1t will be more CON-
Portable"
Then. with a sudden change of tone,
she exclaimed, Il forgot to say my pray
ers." hut instead of kneeling she picked
her way through the tent to the foot of
n of the beds and lay there till morn
ing. She did not remember the CONVEX
sation Of the night, but told us that she
had a habit of talking in her sleep. and