Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-11

dent. Often the nightdress collar is
accidentally tightened or, the head has
assumed such an angle as to interfere
with circulation, causing smothered
sensation, which suggests hanging or
falling from some high point, aud be-
ing unable to breathe the while.
Pheasant as we'll as bad dreams
can be made to order. Experiments
prove that hideous faces seen in sleep
may be replaced by attractive ones if
the subject is made to gaze long and
steadily at beautiful picture just
before the eyes are closed in sleep.
Experiments have also shown that
dreams of certain colors can be in
duced by causing the subject to gaze
steadily at disks or through glass of
the same color, shown IN such way
as to cause surprise just before retir-
ing.
Experiments further show that
cold congresses applied to the head
will Danish bad dreams. A layer of
cotton wool, similarity placed, will,
by raising its temperature, make
dreams more vivid and intelligent.
Placing the sleeper on his right side
will make his dreams absurd, extrava-
CANT and of remote time; on the left
side, reasonable and of a recent time.
Experiment also shows that placing
a candle in the otherwis dark room cf
the sleeper will serve often to dissipate
bad dreams.
ENFORCED BY ASSOCIATION.
Experiments further show how
dreams are enforced by association. A
man who, while travelling in certain
place always used peculiar perfume,
invariably dreamed of that place when
a drop of this perfume was placed
upon his pillow. Another important
fact lately brought out is that many
people on awakening from vivid
dreams retain these dream images in
their eyes. These dream images can
be retained until the position of the
eye is changed. This phenomenon
may account for many supposed
ghosts seen Immediately after awaken
ing, when the parent dream images
have not been retained in memory.
Dreams and hallucinations have the
same radical cause.
''It has been said that dreaming IS
abnormal, temporary insanity. Elabor-
ate notes lately made on thousands of
dreams show that the DIRE aiming brain,
like the savage brain, has but feeble
appreciation of cause and effect.
Simple resemblances of form, color,
sound, etc., will bring together dream
images without sensible relationship.
Bad dreams are sometimes so vivid as
to drive men permanently mad. Cow
per's madness is said to have been
due to this cause.
"a characteristic of dreams of the
aged is that scenes portrayed to them
in the present are usually composed
of influences tiguringln younger days.
1t is also found that dreams almost
invariably appear to be in the pres
ent time, that they occur most fre.
quently during the light morning
sleep, that those after four clock are
more vivid than those before, and that
the deeper the sleep the less we par
ticipate in our own dreams. Did you
ever note that you never see your own
face in your dreams?
81 have told you that character can
now be read from dreams. At least,
this possibility is indicated by these
researches. The data show that the
greater the individual development of
the subject, the more rich and varied
his dreams. The uncultured seldom
dream, and when they do, their visions
are usually limited to crude repetitions
of experiences of the previous day or
week. Recent Investigations of the
sleep of idiots and imbeciles show that
they are poor dreamers.
Criminals are found the same. No
sleep is like the proverbial sleep of
the just as that of the murderer.
Even during the night following his
crime he is not apt to dream.
"The best dreamers are usually the
best thinkers and the best sleepers.
Absence of dreams often is premoni-
tory symptom of mental and nervous
disease. Diseases which exhaust the
organism and depress the emotions
diminish dreaming power. might
also add that women are found to
dream more than men of their own
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those who have husbands.
ga man once told his son, small
child, where he had deposited his
will and where it might be found
should he die. The son grew to mid
die age before his fathers death. He
had forgotten about the will, and
after worrying about the settlement
of the estate for weeks, dreamed one
night that his father appeared and re-
vealed the hiding place, Evidence of
witnesses present when the disclos-
ure was actually made could not con-
vince him that the dream was but
regeneration of memory.
"Dreams are given to us for good
purpose. Their function is to exer-
else regions of the brain left jdie in
the waking state. They certainly
vary the grinding monotony of uni-
form, workaday life. There is new
theory that premature age may be
hastened by dreaclless sleep. The
circumstances of each mans life de-