Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-03-24
THOUGHTS IN DREAMS
Startling Rapidly With Which the
Mind Works In Sleep.
SOME STRANGE EXPERIENCES

The Events Of a Whole Lifetime May
Fiit Past the Dreamer IN Few Ne
rnents-Guser Results CT Dream
Experiment by Noted Psychologist
A characteristic Of dreams which. rs
TIE rather materillisuc Or Clarke
SAYS. "lints NJ q life that has neither
beginning nor end and Is bounded bv
10 limits which human thoughts can
compass" IS the rapidly with which
events happen IN the dream world.
Thus. when asleep and dreaming. we
live an entire lifetime IN a minute:
I'm q space OF time that is scarcely
more than a second we PASS through
experience that could not be duplicat-
ell In this objective sphere in hours.
perhaps IN years.
Count Lav0lette relates that one
nirht. when Imprisoned and under sen
teuce of death he dreamed that he
stood Tor Eve hours ot Paris street
corner. where Le witnessed n CON
uuuous succession 81 narrowing scenes
~ blood. every one 81 which wrouchr
his soul Go The highest pitch II excite
Uent. When De woke he found that
be had been asleep less than two min
utes.
In a more recent experiment. made
expressly u test the truth Of these
theories. the subject was aroused from
sleep by n few drops Il water bein-
sDrinSled uron HIS forehead II tool.
but an instant % accomplish this re
suit, and yet in that Incidentally brief
space ~ time the man dreamed Of
going on an excursion: II an accident
by which he was plunged into a lake.
and during the long struggle % escape
death that followed all the experiences
OF HIS life seemed u lash before him.
just rs they are said 20 appear 90
person who Is actually drowning.
Dreams are trickSte~S Professor
Kitchener OF Cornell university told
WIKI custo ~ his experience. A.
specialist IN psychology Lee interested
himself 80 dreams. Like 4 true scion
usc. he once SET about gathering data
81 wanted TO know what caused
dreams. where they came from. what
they meant and an that he deter
mined To watch himself when De sler-
and 70 awake himself nc once whom
he found himself drca ming So-ncthiu-
az value. 50. with notebook on q
writing table near his bed he forced
himself 20 vakcn FOR several nights
ard 10 write down. while the dream
impressions were vivid. his remeu-
brancoS ~ the details and by study
Of the room. the bed and his physical
condition 20 attempt 20 arrive ar To-,
possible causes II his dreams.
,r--e .~,rrfr-e~ ~, Q, ..,.-.--r. .A.,.
night be had particularly vivid
dream. In accordance with his prac-
tice. he forced himself To awake and
Immediately write down clearly every
thing about it chen went lack ro sleep
again. Tho next morning ho arose
and was oStouGGed 90 see that his note
sheet was blank He remembered pos
itively The notes he had ser down
thereon 81 the middle u the preceding
night The next uiClJ again he wrote
down his notes AFTER his dreams. only
10 have the same urcarny sensation
the next morning m finding nothing
recorded
The strange circumstances ser him q
porderinC That u,Eht he impressed
upon his mind before dropping of iut'
slumber that be must awaken with his
drSc dream or. II uot with that. with
his second dream. Subsequently, this
strong aute>,eepir- command deliver
cd 20 himself was present all through
his dream consciousness. When the
first scenes of 81 vivid dream came be-
fore his fancy be felix himself awaken
and he set about writing down The
rr..rs up0D the mad M hiss table