The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-14
A HORRIBLE VISION.
! FrightfuI Dream Which Recurs
Ten Times in One Year.


Recently a number of wonderful in
stances of the recurrence of dreams
have been brought to my notice. 1t is
no unusual thing for a person to dream
the same dream with some modifica-
tons twice but when the vision is
repeated, exactly the same in every
minute detail, as many as ten times IN
a year, it become an interesting proc
lem a friend ayers he is haunted
yes, haunted-by a dream which per-
sistS in recurring to him sometimes
as often as twice in a month. He says
he never goes to sleep at night with
out the terror of having TO pass
through the horrible experiences OF this
vision. During the day he Is unable
to shake off the impression made by
it, SO that waking or sleeping the ter
Tor is always with him. The mere TACT
of a dream recurring ten times is most
extraordinary, but besides this one has
other peculiar features which make
it all the more interesting. About
year ago, the gentleman to whom l
refer awolxe suddenly and found him
self in q, profuse cold perspiratlon.
with his heart humping away as II
he had been exercising violently. he
collected his thoughts and found the
cause to be a horrible dream which he
remembered wildly.
In his dream he thought ne was
walking through forest OF lea1less
trees. The chilly air and impressive
stiffness peculiar to heavy over
grown wood were made deathllke oy
the absence of life on all sides NO
songs of birds nor chirps of insects
could be heard, and the twigs which
were scattered on the brown, dry grass
cracked in an unearthly manner as
the lone traveller walked along. MY
friend said the surroundings gave him
the impression that something terri
BILE was going to happen, but he could
not turn back, seemingly lmpelled py
some unseen force to pursue his path.
| At last he came to a brook whose
banks were so sloping that they could
almost be called hills. AS he stood
there his gaze was attracted by the
! figure of something coming down the
slope in the distance, which seemed 10
| be making it's way toward him. AS
/ it drew nearer he saw that 1t was a
man From his first sight of the f1g-
ure he was seized with an awful terror
which seemed to grow more and more
intense as the man came nearer On the
figure coming closer he could see the
face of the man in the twilight of the
shaded wood, but not distinctly What
a face it wasi 1t had the pallor OF
death, and the eyes seemed to lack the
fire of life. Still the man came on,
and the watchers heart beat faster
/ and faster Finally, with a light
spring, the figure leaped across the
brook and stood right before my
friend, who then, to his borrow, saw
his own face-dead, not a sign of life
visible; the eyes CLASSY and expression
less and the color of the flesh IS mar
I BILE. Then, the horror of the situation
awakened him and he found himself
in the condition described above. He
slept no more that night, and for a
week after he thought about the por-
tents of the awful vision. but finally
the remembrance of that terrible night
died out. About a month after he had
the same dream without a single de-
tail altered, and, peculiarly, it all
seemed new to him, he having no recol-
lection while dreaming of ever having
seen the vision before. So during the
year he has undergone the same ex-
perience ten times. No wonder he
feels a dread of meeting his dead
second self in the lifeless forest.-Pitts-
! burg Dispatch.