The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-07-28
DREAMS OFTEN REPEATED.


day dreams alone, although these for
the most part are thought by the pub
lie to be queer enough-but just the
ordinary sleeping dreams. Dreams
of the latter sort were discussed at
meeting of inventors one night late
| ly. After talking of dreams in gen
eral and the philosophy of uncon-
scious cerebration, several of those
present related personal experiences
that are peculiarly strange and weird,
says the Kansas City /ou,mal.
For twenty FIVE years, % said Pres
ident Dimmitt, of the Inventors as
sociation, 81 have dreamed almost
nightly of flying. Occasionally I
miss a night, but week never goes
by without my aerial fight. 1t ap-
pears to me that I take a running
start as though on a bicycle ard grad
ually rise from the earth, soaring
over cities and towns, looking down
at the people, and observing them
often to point at me, saying: "See
him ! There he goes There he
goes p sail along from the top of
one hill to another, traversing i'm
mense distance in single night.
There is nothing terrifying in it at
all. On the other hand it is a delight
full sensation to feel that you are soar
ing above everybody, but notwith-
standing this I often get provoked at
myself for dreaming this dream so
persistently. I have tried in every
way to break myself of it, but to no
avail. I still take my fly nearly
every night. 1 do not imagine that
I am an airship-I am alone, and am
just sailing through the air like a
bird"
This experience caused great deal
of comment among the inventors and
various explanations were offered of
the frequent recurrence of it. Then
George D Shu1tz came forward with
dream even stranger yet.
"My uncle" he said, "who lived
in the country, had large meadow
adjoining his farm. There were per-
haps 80 acres of it, and it was low
land, soggy, wet and sproutty great
part of the time. It was surrounded
by rail fence and was boardered on
one side by a dense thicket. For
some reason my uncle always said
that he wanted to be buried in that
meadow and when he died the family,
in consideration of his last request,
buried him in one corner of the mead
ow. l remember the grave distinct
ly. The ground about it was so wet
that they had to bail out the grave
before the coffin was lowered into it.
A small fence was built around
the grave, inclosing it in small
ow 70 IcseIf.
"Now, this is where my dream be-
gins, and for ten or fifteen years Of
my life I dreamed it regularly every
night. One night saw little child,
a girl, emerge from the thicket bor-
dering on the meadow, crawl through
the meadow fence and start in di-
rect line across it to my uncle's grave.
She had got only part way toward it
when a great herd of lions, tigers and
other savage beasts rushed into the
meadow and made for her. Just be-
fore they reached her they all got into
terrific fight and in the scramble
hid her from my view. But in mo-
ment she came into view again, run
ming for her life back to the spot in
the fence where she entered the mead
ow. / could see that little child as
plainly as I see anyone in this room.
I could see every feature of her face
and would recognize her instantly if
l should ever meet her. can see
her little dress blowing out straight
behind her as she ran from the wild
beasts. 1 can see the very panel of
the fence that she crawled through,
and many time I went in broad day
light and examined it, peered into
the thicket and searched for child's
footprints and expected some savage
beast would spring out at me. Night
ly for years 1 dreamed this dream,
Always the same little girl, always
the wild beasts coming just as she
got part way across the meadow, and
always her terrified fight back again
to escape them. Idreamed this over
and over again, the details always the
same, until finally one night the child
got clear to the little inclosure around
the grave before the animals reached
her. She got over the fence, turned
around and put her face to the cracks
and looked through at the lions and
tigers. She was perfectly safe. The
wild beasts could not reach her. She
was in a haven of refuge. Since that
night the dream has never come back
| to me.