The Washington bee., 1910-11-12
THOUGHTS IN DREAMS
Startling Rapidly Win Which The
Mind Works In Sleep.
SOME STRANGE EXPERIENCES
Ths Es-snts Of . Whels LIfstIms May
Flh Past the Dreamer IN q Few Me-
sasnts-oussr Results Of q Dream
ESsssImsnt BY Nstsd Psychologist.

4 characteristic Of dreams which. as
ne rather materialistic Dr.. Clarke
sayn, ''hints at Z Life that has neither
Beginning nor end and is bounded by
20 limits which human thoughts can
SompAss" il the rapidity with which
events happen IN the dream world.
Thus. when asleep and dreaming, Ne
I'VE &H entire lifetime In q minute;
n q space Of time that is scarcely
more than = second We pass through
experiences that could not be dupiicat-
Cd in this objective sphere In hours.
perhaps In years.
Count Lavaletts relates that One
uaght, when imprisoned and under sen
tancs Of death. he dreamed that he
stood for Eve hours at q Paris street
Soxner, where he Witnessed q con.
Elnuous succession of narrowing scenes
Of blood, every one Of which wrought
his soul to the highest pitch Of excite
HOnt. When he woke he found that
hs had been asleep less than two min
UteE-
IN q more recent experiment, mads
expressly 70 test the truth Of these
theories, the subject was aroused from
deep by a few drops Of water being
sprinkied upon his forehead. Il took
but an instant to accomplish this re-
saIt, and yet IN that intellectually brief
SPACE Of time the man dreamed Of
going on an excursion; OF an accident
By which he was plunged into q lake,
and during the long struggle to escape
death that followed all the experiences
Of his life seemed 70 aash before him,
5ust as they are said to appear TO 3
person who is actually drowning.
Dreams are tricksters. Professor
Kitchener of Cornell university told
With gusto Of his experience As
specialist IN psychology he interested
himself IN dreams. Like q true scien-
tist, he once set about gathering data.
he wanted TO know what caused
dreams, where they came from, what
they meant, and sll that. he deter
mined to watch himself when he slept
and 20 awake himself at once when
he found himself dreaming something
OF value. So. with a notebook on
writing table near his bed, he forced
himself to waken for several nights
and to write down, while the dream
Impressions were vivid, his remem-
brances OF the details and by study
Of the room, the bed and his physical
condition to attempt to arrive at the
possibIe causes OF his dreams.
He was getting on famously. One
night be had a particularly vivid
Aream. In accordance with his prac-
dee, he forced himself to awake and
Immediately write down clearly every
thing about #, then went back to sleep
again. The next morning he arose
and was astounded to see that his note
sheet was blank. he remembered pos
fttVely the notes he had set down
thereon In the middle Of the preceding
aiSht. The next night again be wrote
down his notes after his dreams. only
% have the same uncanny sensation
the next morning at finding nothing
recorded
The strange circumstances set him to
Wondering. That night he impressed
upon his mind before dropping OF into
siumber that he must awaken with his
nrst dream, or. II not with that, with
ais second dream. Subsequently this
strong antesleeping command deliver
ed to himself was present all through
his dream consciousness. When the
arst scenes OF q vivid dream came be-
fore his fancy he felt himself awaken.
and he set about writing down the
facts upon the pad at his table
It was then that from some source
of inner consciousness he felt the com
Enand again to awake. although be
seemed at the time TO be in full posses
.zaon OF his normal faculties. His eyes
opened, and the secret was out. he
found himself lying in bed. where ne
had been all that night. His rising
after each dream had become so much
a routine that he had dreamed that
hs had arisen and had made the notes
and his dream was 30 clear that II
seemed reality Outing Magazine.
Pats Deficiencies.