Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-02-24
MYSTERY
DREAMS.
LITTLE PROGRESS HAS
BEEN MADE IN SOLV-
ING THE PROBLEM.

sar's Assassination Hum
boldt that Columbus would bs
Successful.
Will the mystery of dreams
ever be solved the romance OF
sleeps that comes to all alike
rich and poor. saint and sinner
male and female ? Even dogs
dream, they say, ard if dogs
why not horses and cattle and
every other kind of animal2
And yet, common as dreams
are, and familiar to everyone,
the meta physicians and the
philosophers have made but lit.
tie progress in solving the pros
blem. There is perhaps not 50
much superstition among the
educated connected with dreams
as formerly, though there are
still vast numbers of people who
have faith in the dream book
and look upon their dreams as
prophetic and full omens. There
are still interpreters, too, who
will tell you for a consideration
the meaning of your dreams,
though few of them are as sues
cessful as Joseph when he re>
vealed to the butler, the baker,
and afterward to Pharaoh him.
self the portents of their res
pective dreams.
AID yet dreams "come true"
as almost everybody has expert
enced. Not all dreams, but some
dreams. Humboldt relates in
Cosmos" that Columbus in a
dream, long before his first voy>
age, heard a voice saying "God
will give you the keys of the
ocean" Calphurnia, dreamed on
the night before his assassina>
ton that great Caesar fell NOR
tally wounded at her feet, and
she used a'lher artsof pufsuasion
to keep from going to the senate
on that day.
The philosophic explanation
of such dreams is that the wax
ing thoughts being iutently en-
gagged upon any subject, either
of hope, as in the case of Colum-
bus,or Of forebodlng, as in the
case of Calphurnia, continue in
sleep, and in that State though
takes the form of actuality.
There are few people who have
not in greater or less degree had
dreams of this kind.
That the mind often works
intelligently and logically in
dreams, solving problems or
smoothing out perplexing diff
culties that have occurred IN
actual life, has been proved by
testimony that cannot be gains
said. Franklin gives several in
stances where lines of policy or
OF argument came 10 him in his
dreams that had greatly puzzled
him when awake, and Condor>
Get, the French mathema tician,
relates that he solved many in>
tricate problems in his dreams.
"Kubla Kaho," that exquisite
fragment OF Coleridge's genius,
was composed by him in sleep,
and so viv1dly was it impressed
On his mind that he sat down
the next morning to write it out.
While thus engaged he was in
terrupted by vlsItor---a person
from PorIock, nelghboring
village land when he resumed
his pen the poem had vanished
from his mind and he was never
afterWard able to recall another
line, How many lovers of poe>
try have anathemitized that
"person from Porlock' would be
hard to say, but their name is
legion.
The Devils Sonata" is one
of the finest and most remark.
able compositions for the violin
that is known. Its composer,
Tartini, the renowned Italian
violinist, says that he dreamed
that the devil challenged him
to a trial of his skill on the VIC.
lin, and that the Prince of Pan.
demonium so far excelled him