Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-11-24

tasted its bitterness whenever eating
or drinking.
"ln similar manner some organic
disturbance will suggest dreams, eSpe-
cially Nightmares. know of II man
suffering from nervous palpitation rs
Il result Of Over-smoking who dreamed
that hc was pursued by enemies
While running he felt his heart
humping and his nerves fairly
twitching.
Pleasant as well as bad dreams
can be made to order. Experiments
prove that hideous faces seen in sleep
may be replaced by attractive ones il
the subject is made to gaze long and
steadily at a beautiful picture just be-
fore the eyes are closed in sleep.
Seven years of experiment also has
shown that dreams OF certain colors
can be induced by causing the subject
to gaze steadily at disks or through
glass of the same color, shown in such
a way as to cause surprise, just before
retiring.
Experiments further show that
cold congresses applied to the head
will Danish bad dreams. \ layer OF
cotton wool similarly placed, by rails
ing its temperature, will make dreams
more vivid and intelligent. Placing
the sleeper on his right side will make
his dreams absurd, extravagant and of
q remote time on his left side, reason
able and of recent time on his back
agitated and sensuous.
Experiments further show how
dreams are enforced by association.
A man who, while living in certain
place, always uscd certain perfume,
invariably dreamed OF that place when
a drop of this perfume was placed
upon his pillow.
at has been said that dreaming is
a normal, temporary insanity. Elabo-
rate notes lately made on thousands
of dreams show that the dreaming
brain, like the savage brain, has but
feeble appreciation of cause and effect.
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.
"Collection OF dream data is best
accomplished by keeping dream
book, pencil, candle and match safe
on table near the bed and accustom-
ing yourself to jot down the details OF
Of your dreams as soon as awakened
thereby. 1t is found in this way that
dreams become more and more infre-
quent with age. Infants appear to be-
gin their dreaming a few days after
birth, as shown by motions of their
lips and changes of expression during
sleep. A characteristic OF dreams of
the aged is that scenes portrayed to
them in the present are usually com.
posed OF influences figuring in
younger days.
"Charaeter can be read from
dreams. At least this possibility is in
dicated by these researches. The data
show that the greater the individual
development of the subject the more
rich and varied his dreams. The un.
cultured seldom dream, and when
they do their visions are usually linn
tied to crude repetitions of expert
ences 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 so like
the proverbial sleep of the just rs
that of the murderer. Even during
the night following his crime he is
not apt to dream. 1t has been said,
He giveth his beloved sleep 1t
might be better said, He giveth his
beloved Dreams The best dreamers
are usually the best thinkers and the
best sleepers."