Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-29

been referred by some 10 the fact of
the loss or withdrawal Of the control
of the will over our sleeping thoughts
Bat a more profound and truthful view
of the matter is probably taken when
It is stated that we have no conscious
ness of inCoherence or incongruity. In
sleep we get out of the laws Of time
and space; and being in chaos we find
nothing chaotic. The mind makes any
combinations. but it is with elements
that have been previously supplied. 1t
can not exercise itself upon what it
has not received. The imagination.
the grotesque representative power is
that which is occupied, rather than
that which Is loosely, and probably in
correctly. spoken of as phantasy or
fancy.
To the dreamer there is nothing
scenic or false i'm the action Of his
dreams. He does not assist at an un-
real phantasmagoria, nor is his dream
a shadow dance His spectacles are
not "airy nothings' compressed into
"a local habitatiou.' his feasts are not
the offerings of shadowy nothings to
feigned guests; nor are his battles
waged between serried ghosts that 80
forth TO encounter armed phautOms i'm
Elusive war. In short, relatively to
the dreamer, there is nothing fictitious
about his personae the reality of
which. indeed, is rather intensified by
his exclusion from the world of sense.
How, then, asks Seaheld are we TO
account for the greater yiyidness Of
dream Impressions Are we to sup
pose that we are more closely en- rap
port with substance than when we are
let and hindered by the conscious tram.
mels and disabilities of the body? Is
there. indeed. a more emphatic cOnnec.
tion established I'm dreams between our
interior "selfhood and the very es.
senCe and substratum Of other entities?
1t is an old maxim that lin sleep
every man has a world Of his own;
when awake, all men have one in com.
mon" And Lord Byron commences
his remarkable poem called "The
Dream with this paraphrase Of the.
ancient saying:
"Our life is twofold; sleep hath its
own world
Aniseed is said by Pliny not only to
impart a youthful look TO the features
but TO have the power, If attached to
the pillow so as 10 be smelt by per
son when asleep Of preventing an dis.
agreeable dreams
Plato considered dreams as emana
tions from the divinity.
Aristotle was of the opinion that
every object of outward sense makes
upon the human soul or upon some
part of the human frame a certain inn
preston which remains for some time
after the object that made it is gone; F.
and which, being afterward recognized /
by the mind I'm sleep, gives rise TO |
those visions that then present them. f.
seiYes.
Strabo held that the human under,
standing is more sensitive i'm dreams
than at any other time
Epictetus advised that dreams
should never be related, on the ground
that. although they might be pleasant
enough to the dreamer to tell, the per
sons listening would not take pleasure
in hearing them.
Galen was accustomed to attach
much value to the medical intelligence
of dreams. He declares that man
dreamed that his left thigh was trans
formed into a marble stone. and with
in a short while afterward he utterly
lost the use of that member by a dead
palsy.
Dion Cassius attributes IL to dream
that he set about writing his history.
Cyprian afirms that he was instruct
ed i'm a dream 70 mix wine with water,
in the Eucharist.
st. Bernard of Clairvaux says that
devils often disturb men at night by
dreams.
Thomas Aquinas argues that God
sometimes gives instructions by
dreams, and that holy men, such as
Joseph and Daniel, have been skilled
in this art.
The conviction Of Josephus, the Jew
ish historian and warrior, Of the cred
ibiuty of dreams as being sent from
God. Is so thorough, and his opinions
on that subject are so practically ex-
pressed that they resolve themselves
out of the abstract and into the actual
and narrative form. He took dreams
into his counsel, marked out the
course Of his life in conformity with
their directions. and did not hesitate
TO stake his most critical Interests up
on their validity.
There are many instances recorded
of creations. grand conceptions and de-
signs having been suggested during
sleep which partly or wholly remem.
bered afterward. were wrought into
reality This. it has been recorded of
a celebrated sculptor that he labored
for years on that which he believed
would De his masterpiece but that u
never quite satisfied him. AT last, az
ter lunumerable retouches, he finished
the work of art, and loud were the
praises of AN spectators admitted "a
his studio. Still I'm his own opinion
something was defective although he
was unable exactly TO see what it was
or TO determine iu what way the piece
Of sculpture could be improved. One
night the ideal of the conception was
brought to his mind I'm sleep, and he
at once saw how perfection could be
arrived at. The first thing he did the
next morning was to smash to pieces
the labor and love Of the past, and re-
commence the work OF creation. Then
all was easy and the great work OF
art imm0rtalized the sculptor.
The following is related by gentle
man whose truthfulness can not bC
doubted: when / was In my teens