Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-05
WHAT DREAMS ARE.
slGNIFIcATloN OF VISIONS THAT ARE
 BEHELD IN SLEEP.
Scientists and Soothsayers Unsatisfactory In Their Attempted ExpIanations-Some of the Interpretations Given by the Stages of Long Ago.

SClCnI1sNS anu SOuthSatycAS GushtAhA6StoTy
 In Their Attempted ExpIanations-Some
 of the Interpretations Given by the Stages
 of Long Ago.
 Scientists explain that dreams arc but reflections of our waking thoughts md actions. We who dream know 1t is not so. We know that sleep brings wis ions not of places and things and people we have seen, but of strange, weird i'm ages and happenings that our mortal eyes never saw and moditations never ooujecturCd.
 Tho Bible tolls of the interpreting of dreams, and ancient experts divined according to principles now unknown. Those wise sCors believed in dreams as forctcllcrs of future events, of good and evil to tho dreamer, whose sleeping hours were filled with visions of delight, or mayhao with phantoms of horror. The sage, Abracadabra, ill his immor- tai treatise on the signifcation of dreams, says among host of wise and witty conclusions: Tt is fortunate to lream of lttlo pigs but unfortunate to | lrCam of big hulloCkS. It may occur to the feeble intellect groping for cause and effect that this can bo explained by the self evident fact that little pigs are harmless, but "big bullccks" arc the opposite.
 ''If you dream you havo lost tooth, you will soon loso q friend" remains prophetic. Indeed the loss of a molar or an incisor is to be doplurcd, and pcrad venture tho first prcmonitOry twingo of an exposed nerve has caused the dream. But how explain If you dream your house is on fire, you will soon have news from far country" and Ito dream of clear water is a sign of gricf:" | Perhaps the modern system of inter prctation may be summed up in the tersc aphorism that "drcams go by con- trarics. So if you dream of receiving money you will likely loso it; if you dream of kisses, fond and sweet, you have blows i'll store. If you dream of tho dead. you will hear from tho liv ing.
 It is moro conducive to comfort of mind, on the whole, to return to the ancient sagcs. Abracadabra may again be quoted as declaring that the most fortunate of all dreams is to dream that you are up to your neck in mud and miro. But. again, ito dream that you stand naked in the streets Is a sure sign of trouble, distress and perplexity. |" Not to be wondered at sure. even in n drcam
 Let us go back still further and con. suit much older authority than Abra calahra-thc wise and learned Tyrosco- phprnus He gives n long list of signiti l ol, EnNxry, ltrro and plant, vegetable, flowers and fruits. To dream of lrafrsS tree is n sign of great sorrow; of a trIo without branches. despair and suicide; the yew and the elder mean sickness to the young and death to the old
 For maiden to dream of stripping the bark from my tree Is n sign of loss of character, declares the hoary old sage, for a married woman it means be rravcmrnt. Indeed TyroScophornus di- vidrS his Siynitications according to tho sex and condition of the drram,r rS. Thus to a man th" stripping "f tn" bark DOT tends an increase If fortune. The limo tree means d NuyA;o across tho ocean; the elder tr.v i> suspicious and the fir tree nInr,. ~p; tu dryHm If tho oak DOT tlml> iuuI life aud uSprrity-fittinE i, this. ,ii"Ily-nud thrae tree fore tells d lu" journey.
 Only limited hy the number of known shruhs are their siEniticatiuns Tc dream of deck leaves means a present or possibly only a visit from your country relatives. of artiChOkcs we are told that they signify favor from nn unexpected source. Surrpl means the approach oi calamity which will require all youI courage to face. Of tho sunflower, the loved of tho psthotiC, deep wound tc your pride.
 If fair maiden dreams of daffUdils, she must, nlas. niStruSt her lover! Ht will bear watching. A sad fato witt
 which tu burden tho innocent posy.
 Hearts Casr means hcartaChC. Lilies
 joy; to dream of roses brings happy love not uumixcd with sOrrow. The fragrant
 modest violet, whose pcrfumcd petal: give sweet olor without stint, if seer
 and carried iu dreams. brings sorrow
 and evil to tho unwcdded, but tho op positr, joy and good, to the married Water lilies appropriately portend dan gerS from thV Sca. Yellow flowers bGtOkeI . jealousy. Of fruits, p0mcgranato Is thu
 best. To dream of this rosy fruit denote: happy marriage to the single and peace between Quarrrlsnmo couples. Greer figs luuan cmbarraS>mrnt, but dry one
 mean money to the poor and mirth tC . tho wealthy. QuincrS indicate plcasan
 company, and lvluons tell of separation To dream of aluvS in bloom butokon
 a legacy. Without Il blossom, long lifo 2 | The broom flower means an increase O l family, and the dclirato anrm0no is
 sign that yuu will $, ln fall ill lovo O | bo m:lvluvvt tu. To iryam ol aSparagu
 i'll huuvh,@, a, u!p NuHs it from tn mari., :tAll~, iS A ~I1u uf tears, but i
 in Nuur dream yal :v" it growing i
 mcgn, gr,d fortune. CIulitl"Wpr k bet
 ter to cat than tn dream Uf It >iSnitic ; when you see it ill your dreams that al ) your friends will drop you for no wors ; reason than poverty.
 There arc more disaSreeable signifi cations to dreams than pleasant ones ] To dream of vermiu Is sign of sick ness, l have found this true in my ovl experience To dream of serpents, fals
 friends arc about you. A falling raj foretells tears and broken eggs a quaI e rel Eggs unbroken denote good luc , and prosperity. To dream of fruit c | any kind out of season means ange F without reason, which is a rhyme at al A events Emma l. McLagan in St Loui V post-Dispatch.
 + Some Explanations of the Oceans Salt ' Tho Pythagorcans held that the St
 was salt ny reason of tho toarS shed l 0 l KrOuOS, father of ZCus. According l tho old Hohraic tradition. tho ocean WI originally a great body of fresh watc
 but which was mado salt by tho abul dant tears of tho fallen angels. Ono SC,
 of Buddhists believe that Lots wife
 that is to say, tho pillar of salt t which was once the wife of the humb