Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-08-16
IN HOURS OF SLEEP
IDEAS HAVE FLOODED BRAINS OF
GREAT MEN.
Authors, Statesmen and Inventors All
Admit indebtedness TO the Drowsy
God-Son1e Remarkable
Cases in Point.

Some people are not satisfied with
having done fair days work at their
regular occupation, but insist upon
keeping busy even when they sleep.
Most OF this work. done uncon-
sciously during the dead hours Of the
night. is worthless, but sometimes in
rellectual feats arc accomplished dur
ing sleep which dur.7g waking hours
proved quite impossible.
From his earliest childhood Robert
Stevenson was dreamer, and his
dreams were horrible. Later In life
he began to dream Of Journeys where
in he would see strange towns In
The next phase be would read in
his sleep and such wonderful books (
that never 0fierwafd was he content (
With ordinary literature Lately he be- I
gan 70 dream in sequence. and be (
would continue the dream from the
place where he left on the previous
night
II Is admitted that Stevenson dream
"a the window scene IN "Jekyll and
hyde and some Of his friends are
sure that the central theme Of the
strange book came 20 the author while
he was asleep. Ills Brownies showed
IL 70 him IN the night
4 pupil OF Prof ron swinden In
Amsterdam solved a difficult problem
in his sleep after the professor and
ten OF the brightest students in the
class had worked for days in the
effort 10 find the answer. Marquis De
Condocei, the famous French mathe-
matician solved problem IN integral
calculus while he was asleep, although
the matter had puzzled him for days
He did not write the answer and
process down as Won swinden's pupil
bad done. but he remembered the so
luton that came ia his dream. and
pat q on paper as soon as he awoke.
Cabanls, the eminent French Dhysi-
clan. says that Franklin told him. dur.
ing one OF his political missions TO J
Paris, that over and over again he
had gone TO bed puzzled by political =
events which became quite clear 10 I
him during his sleep p
Dante is said to have dreamed "The ,
Divine Comedy. or az least the plot
and characters. and some part OF the >
letalls This vision appeared to him =
shen he was only nine years old. y
recording 10 some OF the stories. u
While, as others tell Il. the dream y
anne TO another child during a trance u
Which came with long illness y
Noliaire composed the first canto OF y
he "Henrlade' while he was asleep. -
Ideas occurred 10 me- h says. in ~ y,
pite of myself and in which had - -
o part whatever" -
Some useful and prosaic things also =
ave come from dreams II long has
zen known that the making Of shot
suited from an idea that came to
Bristol mechanic In his sleep. The on
an was employed cutting up strips th
lead. out of which his fellow work. Mi
en- made shot The process was re
Dw and expensive One night this
,rkman had been drinking and after stt
went TO bed he dreamed that II was an
lining As he watched the rain II no
rned 10 lead. and the earth was AFT
yered with shot lie awoke. and. tn,
led with his dream. went up into the ito
wer OF ST Mary Radcliffe. In Bris Is
!. and. melting some lead. poured Il COZ
{ from the top of the tower. When of
went 70 look for the lead he found to
at II had taken the form of shot. res
lus the shot tower became a fact. loo
d the workman made fortune out cor
his dream. Tn