The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-03
PRRSTSTENCE IN DREAMS.
The little Girl That a Man Dreamed OF Every
Night for Many Years.
From The Kansas Cttv Journal,

From he Kansas Citv Journal,
Inventors have queer dreams. Not day
dreams alone. although these for the most
part are thought by the public 10 be queer
enough but Just the ordinary, sleeping dreams
Dreams of the latter sort were discussed al a
meeting of. inventors Thursday night. After
talking of dreams in general and the philosophy
Of unconscious cercbration. several Of those
present related personal experiences that are
peculiar strange and weird.
For Twenty-Five years." said President
Dimmitt. Of the Inventors Association. Il
| have dreamed almost nightly OF flying. Oc-
| casionally miss a night, but a week never
coe. by without my aerial flight, II appears
10 me that take u running start az though on
a bicycle and gradually rise from the earth,
| soaring over cities and towns, looking down
az the people, and observing them often TO
| poin, NJ me, saying; See him. There he goes,
| There he goes ! sail along from the top, or
one mill 10 another. traversing immense dis
| ,ances In n single night, There Is nothing
terrifying in II at all. On the other hand IT
is a delightful sensation to feel mat you are
| soaring above everybody, but Notwithstanding
| this | often get provoked at myself for dream;
ing this dream So persls'ently. nave trled
in every way TO break myself OF II. but to no
avail. ! still take my ny nearly every hiRhti
| am alone. and am Just sailing through the air
This cxperience caused a great deal OF com-
| ment among the inventors and various eN-
| plantations were offered OF the frequent re-
currrncr Of il. Then George ID, Shultz came
for ward with a dream even stranger yet.
NY uncle. " he said, "who lived In the tolln-
try, had a large meadow adjoining his farm
There were perhaps thirty acres of, II and II
was lowland. soggy. wet and sproutly u gren,
part of the time, II was surrounded by q rail
fence and was bordered on one side by a dense
thiCket. For some reason my uncle always
said that he wanted to be buried in that mendow
and when he died the family. IN Consideration
Of his request. buried him in one corner OF the
meadow. remember the grave distinctly:
The ground about IL was 50 Wet that they had
10 bal out the grave before the coffin was low
4 mall fence was built around the grave,
enclosing IL IN II small square lot in the cor
ner Of the meadow,
Now, this Is where my dream begins, and
for ten or fifteen years Of my life dreamed
il regularly every night. One night ] saw a
little child. a girl, emerge from the tRicket
meadow fence and start in a direct line across
1t to my uncle'- grave. She had got only, rart
way toward IL when a great herd Of lions.
tigers aud other savage beasts rushed into
Che meadow and made for her. Just before
they reached her they all got into n terrific
fight and in the scramble hid her from my
view. but In u moment she came into view
again. running for her life back 10 the spot
in the fence where she entered the meadow,
] could see that little child as plainly "a see
tire Of her face and would recognize her in
.tantly II I should ever meet her, I can see
her little dress blowing on, straight behind
i her a., as s she ran nnI ir 81 ,b ans sen w,,d ih oeu he crar ISii
through. and many a time ] went IT, broad
daylight and examined II, pecred INTO the
thicket and searched for a ch,ld'. 1oo,pr'n,,.
ways the same little girl. always the Wild beasts
coming just a. she got part way across the
meadow, and always her terrified night back
and over again, the details always the same,