The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-12
TO STUDY DREAMS.
An Association Which Has a Novel
Object in View.
The Mysterious Visions Of Our Sleep
ing Hours to Be Scientifically In
vestiEated in Order to Discover
Their Meaning and Their Causes.
From the Detroit Free Press.

ing hours TO be Sclenllucal1y IN
vestigated in Order to Discover
Their Meaning and Their Causes.
From the Detroit Free Press.
The Dreamers' Club is one of those in
teresting organizations which has for its
foundation the highest phenomena of the
spiritual life No one can become a mem
Der of the club who is not absolutely
truthful in all statements, and sincerely
honest in investigating the phenomena of
dreams. There must be no waking ro-
mances, no hallucinations or visions, save
those that come in sleep. A record is
kept by each member of the dreams
that occur between the times of meeting
The most remarkable, or those that
would seem 10 have some bearing on
events in the future, are read aloud and
commented upon. The most recent men,
Der, woman of middle age, gave the
particulars of a distressing dream which
seemed to presage some misfortune. The
dreamer has noticed this condolences
Her health, which was excellent up to
the night OF her dream, mas failed rapidly
since, so that grave fears are entertained
for her life Her dream, as related by
herself, was this:
Il slept facing a wall, there being a
space between the bed aud the wall for a
person to stand upright. 1t was my Gus
tom TO let one hand fall over the edge of
| the bed, and on this occasion dreamed
that calf bit my hand, not pointully,
but gently, giving me, however, a most
disagreed bic sensation. as l felt its loose
Jaws mum bling my hand. Then there
was period of Inconsistencies, and
again 1 dreamed that dog was biting my
hand cruelty, and could not get it away
/ The pain caused me TO sob and cry in my
sleep, and1 awakened in panic of fear,
my dream being so natural that l could
feel the actual pain Of the bite as passed
| from sleep TO waking. 1t may have been
caused by imperfect circulation, or the
beginning of this illness, which is the re-
suit of a cold. So far nothing has come
OF the dream save a most disagreeable
! impression
| Another member of the club described
dream that had occurred TO him.
1T is common remark that if you
dream of the dead you will hear from the
| living. l have had that theory proved to
me in a remarkable manner several times
in the course of my life, and as recently
as last week.' He said:
Il was much worried in my waking
hours about sister from whom had not
A4NhAO III oO1lC VlllIs anu IL 10 D+OOdUlG
that this fact was in my mind and a source
! of uneasiness when | fell asleep. dreamed
| that | had just received news of my
mothers death, sent to. me in some way
| by my father, whose voice / seemed to-
hear distinctly, telling me that she died
of consumption. Now, while | could hear
my father well remembered volce-both
he and my mother have been dead twenty
years i could not ask him a question nor
was ! conscious in my dream of seeing
him, but on awaklng | could recall his
| features with a distinetuess l had not
! been able to do for many years.
81 dreamed that my grief at the death
| of my mother was almost distractiug and
| | was full of remorse that | had not been
| to visit her. l dreamed that she died at
our old home in Roxbury-she had really
died in the west whittier she had moved
with mer-and that had upbraided my
| self because.I had been in Washington
in my dream-and had passed through
| Boston. These circumstances added the
most poignant anguish TO my sorrow and
! wept exhaust1vely. ! also dreamed that
my grief was increased by receiving sew
eral mementoes of her sent after her
| death.
"Fhe final, overpowering part of my
dream came when two women called who
had been with her in her last hours.
consented to see them, but when they be-
| gan recital of the particulars of that
last illness ! wept so bitterly that the
violence of my emotions awakened me.
! My face was wet with tears and 1 was
| suffering such actual pangs of grief that
| to know it was only a dream was IA
! blessed knowledge. l had been with my
| mother during every moment of her last
! illness, but had she died year previous
| to that time, at her home in ROxbury, /
| should probably have suffered all that
/ the dream implied, for distances were
/ greater at that time than they are now,
and the one haunting fear of my life had
] been that she would die while we were
apart
But whence came that cruel process
of reasoning by which my grief was so in
tensihed that | had been so near her as
Boston, and had neglected to see her, an
act which would have been impossible
under any circumstances
Scarcely had ] risen from the horror
of that dream when a letter was placed
in my hands from the sister about whom
l had been so anxious, literally fulfilling
| the prophecy about dreaming of the dead
The letter contained only good news, but
half of'the pleasure / should have had in
receiving it was destroyed by the men,
DRY of that phantom avant courier-my
ream.n
Very intelligent people have code of
interpretations for dreams which they
refer to as faithfully as if they believed
in it, while they would berate Nancy, the
cook for sleeping with dream book I'M
der her pillow. The Dreamers Club does
not encourage the superstition of dreams,
but nvestigation Of the dream world
itself and piecing together of incohier-
ent fragments OF dreams, in the hope Of
discovering some valuable material for
analysis
The Bible is full of references to
dreams, which in ancient days were
looked upon as oracles for the guidance Of
the dreamer in the most important
events of life. Jacob dreamed of a ladder
of angels. The dreams of NeDuchadnez-
Ear and of Daniel form part of the Bible
history. In those days dreams were be-
lieved TO have a divine origin THE
Lord appeared TO Solomon in dream ~
God came to Laban the Syrian in a
dream by hight" The angel of the
Lord appeared unto Joseph in "a dream"
A man who had never dreamed applied
TO the Dreamers' Club for admission TO
membership. He was promptly refused
Then he gave his reason for wanting TO
join. He said IL was ambition of his
life to dreamIthat the nearest he had
ever come 10 it was when he heard in his
sleep someone say: "You must have been
dreaming, when the JOY Of finding him
self engaged in dream awakened him.