Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-11
CAUSES OF NIGHTMARE,
FRESH DATA WHICH THROW A NEW
LIGHT ON DREAMS.

llIHl ON DREAMS.
How Character Can Be Read by These
Visions Within Certain Limits-Pieas-
I ant Dreams Made to Order-Dreams
Given to Us For Good Purpose.
"Recent experiments, which do not
seem to have found their way into pop
ular print, throw tremend amount
OF new light upon Dreams" said a
we'll known specialist in nervous dis
eases day or two ago to New York
Herald reporter. "For instance, 1t is
shown very satisfactorily how charac-
ter can be read from dreams within
certain limits, and how dreams can now
be made to order by applying certain
stimuli. Then, there is no end OF
fresh data explaining causes of hide
GUS nightmares and ordinary dreams,
as well as of supposed premonitory
visions during the sleeping state.
81 have an instrument which has
lately been used to penetrate deep in
to dark and unexplored chasms of
dreamland. Technically, it is known
as the ophthomaloscope, but often
jokingly 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 walk
ing state appear projected into space
as twisued 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 sulphid g, 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
al, ~,
luminous sweat
Foreign substances upon the eve
thus throw their dark shadows, and
suggest objects which set the dream
mechanism in motion. Particles in
or upon the retina seem when the eve
is closed to be five 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
retina is known to cause various
spectra.
In our dreams we see more than
we hear. In 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 all noticed what
dream images have been suggested by
noises. The sharp banging of a door
suggests a dream in which the re-
port OF q gun is heard. During sleep
the ear receives innunerable vibra
tions, OF molecular sounds, imper-
ceptible in the waking state. These,
as we'll as shadows, furnish food for
many inexplicable dreams.
"How sensations of touch and of
temperature so act durin sleep is
well known. know man who upon
feeling hot water bottle placed at his
feet dreamed that he was walking upon
hot lava. In another such 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. If you
want to have some fun, try this ex-
pertinent upon some unsuspscting
friend.
ga 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 of
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 off
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.
EFFECTS OF SMELL AND TASTE.
"Likewise with the sense of smell.
l heard of a physician who when re-
quired to spend the night at the ill
melting house of cheesemonger
dreamed he was sealed up in an I'M
mense cheese, where an army of rats
were running over his body.
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