The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-01-05
SUCH STUFF As DaEAMs ARE MADE OF.


When it is desired to ridicule a
thing as unimportant and untrue it is
customary to call it a "dream" but
as matter of fact many dreams are
serious matters and many are true,
though they refer to distant occur
rences or future events. Not long
ago an account was published of
woman who dreamed that negro
stood over her threatening to plunge
knife into her; and though she
awoke and related the dream the
shock was so great that she lived
only a few moments afterward.
More recently story was published
of man who was subject to night
mares from which his wife had to
awake him, and who had one of un-
usual severity and died from it.
Any one who has had a nightmare
can form some idea of his sufferings.
For ges a belief in the signifcance
of dreams has been strongly fixed in
the human mind, SO that it has been
found profitable to print dream
books interpreting the fgments OF
our sleeping brains. There is scarce
ly a religion i'll the world that has
not some connection with dreams, or
in their sacred books has not some
thing to say in support of those who
have visions. Inasmuch as few dreams
are verified human nature, rather
than surrender faint in them, has
invented the theory that dreams go
by contraries. Occasionally a dream
comes true, and, strange to say, it is
usually about some calamity and
never about streak of gooo luck or
fortunate occurrence.
In spite Of all the wonderful stories
that are told about dreams the proba-
bility is that they are nothing more
than condolences. This theory
seems incredible in some cases, but
the reason is that no one has any
realizing sense of the vast number Of
dreams that are dreamed. There
are very few people who never dream.
1t is quite likely that all people
dream more or less, and the majority
have two or three every night. Now
assume that this land of ours has
so, ,ooo, 900 people-some dreaming
part of the night, and the majority
from one to dozen visions. 1t is
not unreasonable, then, to suppose
zoo, 900, 900 dreams run through the
heads of the population of the United
Stated nightly, and yet weeks and
months will pass before one OF these
condolences occur. Is it any won
der that one occurs now and then ?
If the human mind could review all
of this dreaming for one single night
the belief in dreams would be shat
tered. Indeed, if it could review all
of the more remarkable dreams that
never come true, the faith in dreams
would be explored. The trouble is
that people hardly ever talk about
dreams nnisss they come true. One
of these has been published and is in
structive.
In Connecticut city lived wo-
man whose husband was travelling
man and came home only once in
several weeks. One night when he
was away she dreamed that be was
dead and laid out in the parlor on the
lower floor. The dream was so vivid
that she jumped out of bed and ran
down to the parlor to see if it was
true. Finding that it was not true,
she went back to bed, but was no
sooner asleep than she had the same
dream and could not content herself
until she had visited the parlor
again. She went back to bed again,
feel asleep aud had the same dream,
and being more frightened than ever,
visited the parlor the third time. BY
that time it was daylight and before
she left the parlor her husband,
walked in at the front door, saying
that he was in perfect health and had
enjoyed an unusually pleasant and
profitable trip. Occasionally stories
are published about people who, while
eating oysters, find pearls of great
price. 1t would not pay anyone to
eat oysters for the sake of finding
pearls, but there Is no doubt that
pearls are found in oysters much Of
tener, the numbers being the same,
than dreams turn out to be prophetic
or telepathic.
What misleads people is that, just
as no one reports that he ate an oys-
ter without finding pearl, no one
reports that he had a nonsensical
dream. .-Lancastey Pa. Examiner.