Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-03-14
WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF.
Evidence That the Mind Reasons 10 the
Cause Rather Than From IL.

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Did it ever appear to you that when
we dream our minds operate back
ward :" said a scientific nan yester-
day. II mean by this that the cause
which gives the impression to the sleep
er's mind that makes him begin to
dream is always the climax of the Wis
ion. We can find many examples
that will sustain this theory. Take,
for instance, a man who falls out of
bed. He dreams, perhaps, that he has
fallen from a %precipice. The cause of
this dream is the shock he receives by
coming into contact with the floor.
Between the time he receives the fall
and the moment he awakes-in this
short period, almost infinitesimal-
his mind follows out the impression re-
ceived by the fall, reasoning to it as a
climax. Thus, when he comes to his
senses he remembers having had the
vision and wonders Why he should
have fallen out of bed Just at the mo-
ment he should have reached the bot
tom of the abyss. 1t would be folly to
think that he had been dreaming of
falling and then suited his actions to
the dream by doing SO at exactly hat
moment. | have had dreams in which
explosions occurred, and they were
caused by the noise of a door being
slammed. The noise gave my mind
the impression of an explosion, and
so | reasoned TO it. The details have
been 80 perfect and the series of Incl.
dents leading up to the explosion have
seemed to take up such a great length
of time that | have often wondered at
the rapidity of thought while in sleep.
In a moment incidents can be reviewed
which it would take hours to act out.
know OF a friend who fell asleep while
looking at a clock one afternoon and
began a trip to New York in a dream.
he remembered wildly the ride from
his house to the depot how he was
stopped by = friend who questioned
him about important business ; how
he got on the train after an alterca-
ton with the baggageman in regard
to charging for overweight, all of
which compelled him to run to catch
the train how he sat in the parlor
car and enjoyed the scenery, remem
bering all stations until he arrived at
Greensburg, when a friend asked him
to join in a game of poker; how he
played each hand, the pleasant recol-
lection OF several times holding four
aces being plainly in his mind how
he continued PLAYING without inter
ruption except for dinner until he ar
rived at Philadelphia, when counted
over some $500 in winnings. Then he
remembered having met a friend while
eating in Broad Street station who
talked upon a leading topic in politics /;
then he got on the train, and began
reading a magazine which be had pur-
chased at the news stand, finally ar
irving at Jersey City. HI had just got
on the ferry boat when his wife came
in and woke him. He rubbed his eyes,
and, thinking he had been asleep for
some time he looked up at the clock,
when he found that but three minutes
had elapsed since he fell asleep. In
these three minutes he had made q
journey to New York, seeing every
thing as wildly as if real. l tell this
just to show the wonderful activity of
the bran of a sleeping person and in
support of my theory that in a dream
the mind reasons to a cause rather than
from it."-St, Louis Republic.
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cold in the winter season. A draught
of air, the going out of a fire or any
sudden change of the temperature of a
room is sufficient to produce such a re-
suit. While we can not prevent, we
can easily cure these troublesome at
fections with a few doses of DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup.
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