The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-12-02
press against the diaphragm and sct

dent. Often the nightdress collar is
frightened 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, and be-
ing unable to breathe the while.
pheasant as veil 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 q beautiful picture just
before the eyes are closed in sleep.
Experim ents have also shown that
dreams of certain colors can be in
duced by causing the subject to gaze !
steadily at disks or through glass o.
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, extraya-
CANT and of remote time; on the left
side. reasonable and of recent time.
Experiment also shows that placing
candle in the otherwise dark room CT
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
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
eve is changed. This phenomenon
NAV account for many supposed
ghosts seen Immediately after awaken
ing, when the parent dream images
have not been retained in memory.
Dreams and Authorizations 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 dreaming 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 msdness is said to have been
due to this cause.
ga characteristic of dreams. OF the
aged is that scenes portrayed to them
in the present are usually composed
of influences figuring in younger days.
It is also found that dreams almos,
invariably appear to be in the pres
emit time, that they occur most ire
auently during the light morning
sleep. that those after four o'clock are
more vivid than those before, and tina
the deeper the sleep the less we par
ticipate in our own dreams. Did yol
ever note that You never see your owl
face in your dreams?
"I have told you that character car
} now be read from dreams. At least
this possibility is indicated by thes'
researches. The data show that tn
greater the individual development o
the subject, the more rich and varie'
his dreams. The uncultured seldom
: dream, and when they do, their vision
are usually limited to crude repetition
: of experiences of the previous day Q
week. Recent Investigations OF tn
> sleep of idiots and imbeciles show tina
they are poor dreamers.
=. Criminals are found the same. N
u sleep is like the proverbial sleep G
s the lust as that of the murderer
n Even during the night following hi
Is crime he is not apt to dream.
u "The best dreamers are usually tn
l. best thinkers and the best sleepers
% Absence Of dreams often is q premon
Is tory symptom of mental and nervou
l. disease. Diseases which exhaust tn
20 organism and depress the emotion
u diminish dreaming power. mlgi
L also add that women are found
y dream more than men OF their ow
age-unmarried women more tina
y those who have husbands.
10 "a man once told his son, sma
q child. where he had deposited il
N will and where it might be foun
OF should he die. The son grew to init
Of die age before his fathers death. I
70 had forgotten about the will, OF
s. after worrying about the settlemel
te of the estate for weeks, dreamed OF
On night that his father appeared and
IN vealed the hiding place. Evidence
is witnesses present when the disclo
ae ure was actually made could not co
ne vince him that the dream was but
ne rejuvenation of memory.
dreams are given to us for go'
purpose. Their function is to exc
II else regions of the brain left idle
%. the waking state. They certain
i'll vary the grinding monotony of III
pr form, workadaY life. There is M
m. theory that premature age may
,ts FASTENED by dreamless sleep. 7
circumstances OF each mans life Q
err termine what sort of repose his &C
a seriousness should enjoy during slee
Ter Hence, thi-gs which interest us MI
k during the waking state seldom EN-
lat our dreams"
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