The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-18

IN and approached the table where the
work was going on.
You have forgotten 10 make the soup"
said the dreamer. whereupon he arose.
went from the room. accompanied the en-
ploye through a long corridor, and pres
entity found himself in the court Of the col
lege where he had been a student. He
entered an aisle Of the college where he
expected to find the soup, and having
found it said;
You have forgotten the vegetables. Go
to the doorkeeper at the end of the court
and you will find the vegetables on a ia
BILE"
The employe went as directed. was gone
a long time, and then signalled from the
end of the court that he could not ind
the vegetables.
But they are to the left" cried the
dreamer and the employee. turning. went
back, and soon reappeared bearing huge
cabbage. When the employee reached the
dreamer the latter took a knife from his
pocket and began to cut up the cabbage.
He was walked at this moment by the ar
rival of servant who put cup of bouil-
lon down carelessly upon handicapped
table beside him. The dream had occupied
perhaps five seconds. as it was doubtless
suggested by the entrance of the servant
and the half-conscious mans knowledge
that the bouillon was due NJ. Egger be-
lieves that the dreamer worked his wax
ing imagination into his dream, especially
as to the language used. AS to the several
pictures presented to the minds eye of the
dreamer, they could easily enough have
been crowded into the compass of five sec
ends. We frequently take in at glance the
general features of several pictures on the
page of an illustrated Journal AS to the
apparent time elapsed. of course. in the
dream it seemed equal to the time that
would naturally elapse between the va
rious scenes of the dream had they act
ually taken place in waking hours. The
sense of waiting a long time for the re-
turn of the mar sent for the cabbage is
natural result of the annoyance caused
by the imagined neglect.
NJ Egger tells of a somewhat similar
vision of his own by way of illustrating
the untrustworthiness of dialogue recall
ed after dreams. and the easy possibili-
ty of crowding visual pictures into a few
seconds. He heard one morning, when
his sleep was no longer deep, a key turn
ing in the lock of his door. saw the door
open and a friend in black, with a white
tie, enter and approach the bed.
why are you dressed so elaborately?"
asked the dreamer.
I'm going TO the wedding of one of our
friends" was the reply.
Whose we dding?"
Yours"
why was 1 not invited?'
Just as a surprise"
Then, as the friend FASTENED toward the
door, the dreamer said:
why do you hurry?'
Because / am pressed" was the answer
as he went out of the door, and then a
servant entered with breakfast.
Before eating the meal NJ. Egger wrote
down his vision, but he is by no means
sure that the language of the dialogue
was as he gave it. Next morning as he
lay awake he heard the door key turn
and noted that the servant awkwardly
fumbled in opening the door, so that there
must have been the morning before a
space of five seconds between the provok-
ing cause Of the vision and the actual en-
trance of the servant. The time was sufi-
GENTLY long for all the pictures of his
dream and for the exchange of a rapid
dialogue in which there was no physical
effort or enunciation.
One student of the phenomena of sleep
advances the theory that time is really
elastic, and thus accounts for the seem
ing long duration of dreams. NJ. Egger re-
jects this as improved and prefers his own
eminently simple explanation. He is not
even disturbed in his belief by the dream
of a Scotchman who is his vision went
from England to India, returned. and Wis
tied Egypt, and saw and talked with Me-
hemet Ali, Cleopatra, and Alexander the
Great. He is even less disturbed by the
vision of a playwright, who, in manner
most uncomplimentary to himself. fell
asleep at the opening of his own play on
its first night, dreamed that the whole
five acts were played, was delighted at
the applause that greeted his own name
and woke to find the actors at the first
verse of the first scene.
The Scotchman's Journey in his dream
is not remarkable, says NJ. Etyger, because
1t is possible now to make the journey
round the world in twenty-four days and
to make it in imagination in a small
fraction of an hour. As to the playwright
being a man that lived in his imagina-
dnTt1at h.,r 4 faf., +
ing account of his dream. 1t has been
ingeniously suggested, too, that as the
dreamer performs his adventures with
out bodily fatigue, the result of actual
exertion he is not aided in judging the
elapsed time by the report of wearied
muscles.
NJ. Egger explains on the same prin-
ciple the dreams of a German, in one
of which the dreamer saw all the events
of his past life, and in another the lives
of all the persons he had ever known
dead and living. The phrase "all the per-
sons he had ever known" is untrust-
worthy. The visions of drowning per-
sons when all their lives pass in review
are explainable on the same general the
DRY, that the sleeping mind like the wax
ing mind can take cognizance of a vast
number of imagined scenes and incidents
in very short period. The judgment,
enthralled of sleep, still endeavors to APP
ply the rules of the real world to the in
cidents of dreams, and thus the dreamer
has the impression of long periods of time
in a few seconds. The dreamer is like
the man of Incorporate imagination and
feeble judgment who. seeing a tale illus
trated by pictures, thinks that he himself
lives it. The waking judgment weighs
and distinguishes perception and recog-
milton, and so is enabled to keep separate
the me and the nOn-me, but in sleep the
weakened judgment tends to confound the
two.
NJ. Egger finally makes an interesting
suggestion as to the pathological signih-
canoe of dreams. The impressions that
produce dreams are external or internal.
If painful dreams are frequent, the dream
err may well suspect some unhealthy con-
dition that has not yet declared itself in
waking hours, and from these hints may
find 1t wise to consult his physician and
apply the ounce of prevention that is
worth the pound of cure.
Fire Only Made Her Cool.
From the New York World.
Lilly Dale. N. Y.-Mrs. Mary Suydam
Green, of Chicago, amazed a large audi