The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-02
CAUSES OF NIGHTMARE.
FRESH DATA WHICH THROW A NEW
Light ON DREAMS.

LIGHT ON DREAMS.
How Character Can lie Read by Thes,
Visions Within Certain LIinits-Pioas-
ant Dreams Made TO order-Dreams
Given to Us For Good Purpose.
"Recent experiments, which do no,
seem to have found their way into pop
ular print, throw a treme ndous amount
of new light upon drea MS" said a
we'll known specialist in nervous dis
eases day or two ago to q New York
Herald reporter. "For instance, 1t is
shown very satisfactorily how charac-
ter can be read from dreams within
certain limits, aud how dreams con now
be made to order by applying certain
stimuli. Then, there is no end oi
fresh data explaining causes of hide
ous nightmares and ordinary dreams,
as well as of supposed premonitory
visions during ths sleeping state.
"I have an instrument which has
lately been used to penetrate deep in.
to dark aud unexplored chasms ol
dreamland. Technically, it is known
as the ophthomaloscope, but often
iokingly refer to it as my dream tele-
scope 1t is ordinarily used for care
full examination of the inner mechan.
ism of the eye. 1t has aided in show
ing that much of the real food for
dreams Is contributed by Opaque part
icles upon the eye, which in the wax.
ing state appear projected into space
as twisted bodies. drops, lines, black
spots, ETC., often mistaken for natural
objects.
How, then, can the dreamer see in
the dark? That is easily explained.
Few people realize that the human
body normally has the glow worm
characteristic of self illumination. Yet
it is true. Phosphorus exists in all
healthy bone, tissue, muscle, blood and
nervous gray matter. As is we'll known,
phosphorus emits light. So does the
protoplasm in every cell of the body.
So do calcic sulphide, boric sulphide
and chalk, naturally found in the body.
So do teeth.
THE EYE ILLUMINATED.
GAS oxygen is being constantly
brought to these ingredients through
the lungs and circulation, light is be-
ing generated inside every part of the
organism. The eyelid, as we'll as the
inner eye, thus becomes illuminated
to degree imperceptible in the wax
ing state. Some people have been
known to be so phosphorescent as to
be normally luminous anywhere in the
dark. This is so especially in certain
diseases, such as phthisis aud during
luminous sweat
"Foreign substances upon the eye
thus throw their dark shadows, and
suggest objects which set the dream
mechanism in motion. Particles in
or uron the retina seem when the eye
is closed to be i've or six feet distant.
The same is often true of shadows
due to folds in the cornea, shadows OF
twitching blood vessels and their cor.
puscles within the retina. Indeed,
increased blood pressure through the
retiua is known to cause various
spectra.
SIN our dreams we see more than
we hear. In n storm portrayed in q
dream we see the lightning but seldom
hear the thunder. Likewise we hear
more than we feel, feel more than we
taste and taste more than we smell
while dreaming.
However, we have oil noticed what
dream images have been suggested by
noises. The sharp banging of door
suggests a dream in which the re-
port OF gun is heard. During sleep
the ear receives innumerable vibra
tions, or molecular sounds, imper.
ceptible in tho waking state. These,
as we'll as shadows, furnish food for
many inexplicable dreams.
"How sensations OF touch and OF
temperature so act durin g sleep is
we'll known. know man who upon
feeling hot water bottle placed at his
feet dreamed that he was walking upon
hot lava. In another uch case Mexi.
cans were holding the subjects feet to
fire to make him confess the secrets
of alchemy. A woman so treated i'm
agined herself bear being taught to
dance over hot iron plates. II you
want to have some fun, try this ex-
pertinent upon some unsuspecting
friend.
"A cold application will probably
suggest walking on snow or ice in the
bare feet. This often occurs when
the feet become uncovered. Then
there is the very common dream ol
walking about the street divested OF
your lower apparel, and of suffering
great embarrassment at being so dis
covered. When you dream this note
that you have kicked the covers of
your legs. Another common dream
is that of flying through the air. This
is due to draught blowing over the
body. The sensation suggests to the
backward dream reasoning that the
body is moving through the wind.
EFFEoTs OF SMELL AND TASTE.
Likewise with the sense of smell.
heard of a physician who when re-
uired To spend the night at the i'll
S melting house OF cheesemongel
dreamed he was sealed up in an i'm
mense cheese, where an army OF rats
were running over his body.
"Taste will act similarly. Former
Surgeon General Hammond tells of {
young woman who put aloes on hel
thumb to cure her baby habit Of suck
ing that member. She dreamed tha
she crossed the ocean in vessel o
wormwood and that she tasted its bit
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