Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-26
THOUGHTS IN DREAMS
Startling. .Rapidity With Which the
 Mind Works in Sleep.
SOME STRANGE EXPERIENCES

The Events of . Whole Lifetime May
 Fit Past tho Dreamer In Few Mo
 ments--Queer Results of a Dream
 Experiment. by a Noted Psychologists.
 A characteristic of dreams which, as the rather materialistic Dr. Clarke says, hints at life that has neither beginning nor end md is bounded by no limits which human thoughts can compass" Is the rapidity with which events happen in the dream world Thus, when asleep and dreaming, we live an entire lifetime fin minute; in space of time that is scarcely
 more than Il second we pass through experiences that could not be duplfcat- cd in this objective sphere in hours. perhaps in years.
 Count Layalctte relates that one night, when imprisoned and under sen tence of death. he dreamed that he stood for five hours at a Paris street corner. where he witnessed con tinuous succession of narrowing scenes of blood, every one of which wrought his soul to the highest pitch of excite ment When he woke he found that he had been asleep lees than two min utes. srttts efssp,s .uo' In a more recent experiment. made expressly to, test the truth of these theories, the subject was aroused from sleep by a few drops of water being sprinkIed upon his forehead. It took but an instant to accomplish this re- suit. and yet in that incalculably brief space of time the man dreamed of going on an excursion; of an accident by which he was plunged into lake, and during the long struggle to escape death that followed all the experiences of his life seemed to fash before him. just as they are said to appear to a person who is actually drowning. s'
 Dreams are tricksters. Professor Kitchener of Cornell university told with gusto of his experience. As a specialist in psychology he interested himself in dreams. Like true scien- fist. be once set about gathering data. He wanted to know what caused dreams. where they came from. what they meant. and all that. He deter mined to watch himself when he slept and to awake himself at once when he foundl himself dreaming something of value. So. with notebook on writing tabie near his bed. he forced Himself to waken for several nights md to write down. while the dream impresslons were vivid. his remen- .brancesr of the "details ard by n study Of the room. tlie. bed and bis physical condition to attcinpt to arrive at the possible, causes of his dreams
 { He wasayettlng on famously. f One night he had particularly vivid dream. Tn atcordance with his prac- tice. he forced himself to awake and Immediately write down clearly every thing about it. then went back to sleep again. 'qhp ne~t morning be arose ard was astounded to see that his note! sheet was blank He remembered pos 5ftively Tthe notes he had set down thereon. in tie middle of the preceding night. Tbe next, eight again he wrote down his notes after his dreams. only to have. the same uncanny sensation .the next morning at finding nothing recorded
 The strange circumstances set him to spondering,. That night he impressed upon bis mirid before dropping off into slumber that he rust awaken with his first. dream. or, if not with that, with his second dream. Subsequently this strong antesleepin; command deliver ed to himself was present all through hiG dream consciousness. When the first scenes of q vivid dream came be- fore his fancy he felt himself awaken, and he set about writing down the .facts upon theYpsd at his table. .s g2 '- { It was then that from some source sof inner cousgiousness he. felt the com 'mands again to awake. although he seemed at the time to be in full possess sion of his normal faculties. His eyes opened. and the secret was oufI He found himself lying in bed. where he had been all that night. His rising after each dream had become 50 much a routine that he had drea med ~that he had arisen and had made the notes, and his dream was so clear that it seemed reality .--Onting Magazine aAA