The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-01
AID CAME In THEIR DREAMS
CURIOUS CASES or HELP FROM THE
INVISIBLE SIDE OF LIFE.

One MAN "OTheu out " NuOVy hh
Mathematics While He Slept-A Woman
Dreamed the Missing Details of an In
vention on Witch Her Husband Was Mt
work-An Adventure with No. 10.
"ScoH al the subject az you will" observed the
man who believed in the invisible side Of life
but neither you nor another can define salts
factoriy what Ia superstition. Tho man who
calls another supersitious is himself Just as SUI
perstitious in some other way. II belongs to the
psychic side of us 10 be- 50; few of us know any
thing about the psychic side Of things and VIVA,
we are ignorant OF we are prone TO fight shy Of
or, more common still, TO adapt a tone OF mockery
or banter toward H. But the time ts nearly
past for that l can 40 among no class or con-
diuon OF people that do not hear them discussing
these things nowadays The air is full Of them;
we have been in the C of psychology, and
soon we will read way through IT,
Tho other morning some friends were telling
me at breakfast Of odd experiences they had had
In thought uansforence telcpathy and 90 forth
a few days before. | went downtown that same
morning into a banking house. in a back Office
were a group OF men listening to another man.
a hard-headed money maker who was relating
some of the stranges psychic experiences had
ever listened To- On one point, however, was
at odds with him He tried to explain all phenom-
ena on a material basis on brain function alone.
In this relation told him Of little experience
that had befaen myself during my later school
days / had worked desperately hard a
problem in mathematics. Do what l would
could not get ii right, and at last exhausted /
went 70 bed leaving il unfinished j was tired
and promptly fell asleep but with sleep came
q dream OF that problem. | dreamed worked
II out / could see II all completed and enjoyed
the achievement to the full as might have done
had / been wide awake When awoko next
Al
problem stood out before my waking vision.
While dressing | noticed on table me
sheet of paper and pencil / went over to it,
and there on the paper, in my own handwriting,
the problem completed Just as had seen
" In my dream. l bewildered
AT breakfast | told my mother
at was not dream she said. AT least 1t
ordinary dream | heard you moving
about in your and went in 10 sec il anything
was amiss l you take sheet Of paper,
sit down and write out that problem with the
paper on your knee and go back TO bed again
without striking a light l watched you, but
did not touch you-l had often heard there was
danger in awakening a somnambulist- and
as | was, you never saw me. Your eyes
were wide open, but they siGhtless only
! your mind soul awake
What do you call that asked the materialist
! brain function. he answered.
Hang your brain function ! said to him
According TO the theory on which you base your
| reasoning we know nothing except what comes
to us through five senses: that is all we take
| in form the world around us furnishes the food.
| brain being the machine that grnds and
| uansmutes II again Now where did the five
senses come into play in that experience of mineH'
| If there was brain action il was wholly In
voluntary and unconscious my part Some power
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and produced that result, which my five senses
and all the logic Of experience had previously
| failed TO do. The fact is lead double ex-
istence but the fuss and din OF this noisy side
| keep most of us from the soul side, where hides
the invisible spark You might well talk
| of electric function Of brain function 1t means
much You can trace all the workings Of
electricity back to the power house, but who can
explain the secrets that lurk misunderstanding to
the voices from the elusive invisible force which
cresses all Some day believe will II
science has proved anything it has proved that
the things call material have a soul life.
I am coming to believe that all which call
material are but pictures Of the reality.
Some persons believe that everything about
70 happen already exists is outlined some
where in the astral region before II takes place
here. Now that is no more wonderful TO me
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