The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-05-14
WHAT DREAMS ARE,
6IGNIFICATION OF VISIONS THAT ARE
BEHELD IN SLEEP.

Scientists and SOothsayers Unsatisfactor.
In Their Attempted ExplanatiOns-Som
of the Interpretations Given by the Sage
of Long Ago.
Scientists explain that dreams are
but reflections of our waking thoughts
and actions. We who dream know it il
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 meditations never
conjectured.
The Bible tells of the interpreting OF
dreams, and ancient experts OWNED
according to principles now unknown.
! Those wise seers believed in dreams as
foretellers of future events, of good and
evil to the dreamer, whose sleeping
hours were filed with visions of delight,
or mayhap with phantoms of horror.
The sage, Abracadabra, in his immor-
tai treatise on the Specification Of
dreams, says among host Of wise and
witty conclusions: ct is fortunate to
dream Of little pigs, but unfortunate to
dream of big bulIooks" 1t may occur
to the feeble intellect cropping for cause
and effect that this can be explained by
the self evident fact that little pigs"
are harmless, but "big bullocks'' are
the opposite.
If you dream you have lost tooth,
you will soon lose a friend, " remains
prophetic. Indeed the loss of molar or
an incisor is to be deplored, and perad-
venture the first premonitory twinge 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 "to dream Of
clear water is sign of grief?"
Perhaps the modern system of inter-
probation may be summed up in the
terse aphorism that dreams go by con-
traries. " So if you dream of receiving
money you will likely lose it; if you
dream of kisses, fond and sweet, you
have blows in store IF you dream Of
the dead, you will hear from the liv.
ing"
1t is more conducive to comfort of
mind, on the whole, to return to the
ancient sages. 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
mire" But again, ''to 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 q
dreaml
Let US go back still further and con-
suit much older authority than Abra-
wise and learned Tyrosco-
phornus He gives long list of signifi-
cations, embracing almost every known |
tree and plant, vegetable, flowers and
fruits. To dream of a leafess tree is
sign of great sorrow; of a tree 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 any tree is a sign of loss
of character, :" declares the hoary old
sage, for married woman it means be-
Indeed Tyroscophornus d.
vides his Specifications according to the
sex and condition of the dreamers. Thus
to a man the stripping of the bark por-
tends an increase of fortune. The lime
tree means voyage across the ocean;
the elder tree is suspicious and the fir
tree more SO; to dream of the oak por-
tends long life and prosperity-ftting
is this, decidedly-and the ash tree fore
-ells long journey.
Only limited by the number of known
shrubs are their Specifications. To
lream of dock leaves means a present or
possibly only visit from your country
'elatives. OF artichol1es we are told that
hey signify favor from an unexpected
ource. Sorrel means the approach Of
calamity which will require all your
to face. Of the sunfower, the
owed of the aesthetic, deep wound to
our pride.
If fair maiden dreams of daffodils,
he must, alas, mistrust her loverl He
viii bear watching. A sad fate with
which to burden the innocent posy.
1eart's ease means heartache Lilies,
oy; to dream of roses brings happy love
lot unmixed with sorrow. The fragrant,
modest violet, whose perfumed petals
i've sweet odor without stint, if seen
nd carried in dreams, brings sorrow
nd evil to the unwedded, but the op-
osite, joy and good, to the married
Water lilies appropriately portend dan
ers from the sea. Yellow flowers betoken
ealousy. Of fruits, pomegranate is the
est. To dream of this rosy fruit denotes {
Apply marriage to the single and peace !
etween quarrelsome couples. Green {
gs mean embarrassment but dry ones
lean money to the poor and mirth to
be wealthy. Ounces indicate pleasant
and lemons tell of separation. q,
To dream of aloes in bloom betokens :
legacy Without blossom, long life. j
he broom flower means an increase Of I
lmily, and the delicate anemone is a l
gn that you will soon fall in love or i
3 made love to. To dream of asparagus I
| lunches, as one buys it from the {
larket stalls, is sign of tears, but if
! your dream you see it growing it :
eans good fortune Caulifower is bet =,
II to eat than to dream of. 1t signifies i
hen you see it in your dreams that all f
our friends will drop you for no worse
Jason than poverty.
There are more disagreeable signifi-
.tions to dreams than pleasant ones
0 dream Of vermin is sign of sick.
sss have found this true in my own
zperience. To dream of serpents, false +
lends are about you. A falling rain
retells tears and broken eggs a quar-
j. Eggs unbroken denote good luck
I'd prosperity. To dream of fruit of
~ kind out Of season means anger \
ithout reason, which is rhyme at all :