The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-28
PERSISTENCE IN DREAMS.
The Little Girl That Man Dream
ed of Every Night.

Inventors have queer dreams Not
day dreams alone, although those for
the most part are thought by the pub
/ lie to be queer enough, but just the or
binary sleeping dreams. Dreams of the
latter sort We're discussed at meeting
OF inventors recently. After talking OF
dreams in general and the philosophy
of unconscious cerebration, several of
those present related personal expert
ences that are peculiar strange and
weird.
/ For twenty-five years" said Presi-
4 dent Dimmitt of the Inventors Associ-
alton, Il have dreamed almost nightly
/ of flying. Occasionally l miss a nlght,
/ but week never goes by without my
aerial flight 1t appears TO me that l
take running start, as though on q
F bicycle, and gradually rise from the
/ Garth, soaring over cities and towns,
! looking down al the people, and observ-
/ ing them often to point at me, saying:
/ See him! There he goes! There ne
goes! L sail along from the top of one
! hill to another, traVerSing immense dis
tances in a single night. There is moth
ing terrifying in it at ALL On the other
hand, it is delightful sensation to feel
that you are soaring above everybody,
but Notwithstanding this | 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. l still take my fly nearly
every night. l do not imagine that / am
in an air ship-I am alone, am just sail
ing through the air like a bird
This experience caused q great deal
Of comment among the inventors, and
various explanations We're offered of the
frequent recurrence of it. Then George
ID. Shultz came forward with a dream
even stranger yet.
My uncle" he said, who lived in the
; country, had large meadow adjoining
his farm. There were perhaps thirty
acres of it, and it was low land soggy
: and wet and spouty a great part of the
: time. 1t was surrounded by a rail fence
and was bordered on one side by a
dense thicket. For some reason my
uncle always said he wanted to be
buried in that meadow, 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 it was sc
wet that they had to bail out the grave
before the coffin was lowered into it.
"a small fence was built around the
l grave, enclosing it in a small square lot
in the corner of the meadow.
Now, this is where my dream be-
! gins, and for ten or fifteen years of my
life l dreamed it regularly every night
: One night | saw a little child, a girl
| emerge from the thicket bordering or
fence and start in a direct line across
it to my uncle's grave. She had got
s or part way toward it when a great
! herNIf lions, tigers and other savage
beasts pushed into the meadow and
made foraSSsru1 Just before they reached
her they al 80 into a terrific fight, anC
in the scramble hid her from my view
But in a moment she came into view
\ again, running for her life back to the
spot in the fence where she had enter
$ ed the meadow. I could see that little
! child as plainly as I see anyone in this
room. [ could see every feature of hel
face and would recognize her instantly
il should ever meet her. I can see hel
little dress blowing out straight behind
. her as she ran from the wild beasts
[ can see the very panel of the fence
that she craWleds through, and many g
time / went in broad daylight and ex-
amined it. peered into the thicket and
f searched for a chId's footprints Night
: | ly for years [ dreamed this dream Al
ways the same little girl. always the
wild beasts coming just as she got part
= way across the meadow, and always her
r terrified flight back again to escape
them. [ dreamed this over and over
y again, the details always the same
: until finally one night the child got
0 clear to the little enclosure around the
grave before the animals reached her
e She got over the fence. turned around
/ and put her face to the cracks and
2 looked through a the lions and tigers
4 She was perfectly safe. The wild beasts
could not reach her. She was in a ma
D ven of refuge. Since that night the
: dream has never come back to me-