The Washington bee., 1910-11-19
THOUGHTS IN DREAMS
Startling RapIdity With Which The
Mind Works In Sleep.
SOME STRANGE EXPERIENCES
Vhs Events Of Whsls Lifetime May
FIIt Past the Dreamer In q Few Me-
msnts-oussr Results Of q Dream
Experiment. by Netsd Psychologist.

A characteristic Of dreams which, as
ens rather materiaIistic DR.. Clarke
says. "hints at { life that has neither
Beginning nor end and is bounded by
~ limits which human thoughts can
compass" is the Fapidity with which
events happen IN the dream world.
Thus, when asleep and dreaming, We
ave an entire lifetime In a minute;
"a & space OF time that Is scarcely
more than a second We pass through
experiences that could not be duplicat-
q IN this objective sphere In hours.
parbaps in years.
Count Lavaietts relates that Ons
sight, when imprisoned and under sen
tence Of death, he dreamed that he
stood for FIVE hours at q Paris street
corner, where he witnessed q con-
einuous succession Of narrowing scenes
Of blood, every one OF which wrought
ais soul to the highest pitch OF excite
saent. When he woke he found that
be had been asleep less than two min
dfea.
In q more recent experiment, made
expressly to test the truth Of these
theories, the subject was aroused from
deep by a few drops OF water being
sprinkled upon his forehead. It took
but an instant to accomplish this re-
salt, 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
az his life seemed to fash before him,
yust as they are said to appear to e
person who is actually drowning.
Dreams are tricksters- Professor
kitchener Of Cornell university told
With gusto Of his experience. AS q
specialist in psychology he interested
himself in dreams. Like a true scien-
list. be once set about gathering data.
BE wanted to know what caused
dreams, where they came from, what
they meant, and all that. he deter
u,ined TO watch himself when he slept
and to awake himself at once when
hs found himself dreaming something
OF value. So, with a notebook on a
writing table near his bed. he forced
himself TO waken for several nights
and TO write down, while tho dream
Impressions were vivid, his remem-
brances OF the details and by a study
Of the room, the bed and his physical
sondition 20 attempt to arrive at the
possible causes Of his dreams.
He was getting on famously. One
uight he had a particularly vivid
dream. In accordance with his prac-
Sice, he forced himself to awake and
Immediately write down clearly every
thing about II, 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
ftively the notes he had set down
thereon In the middle Of the preceding
night. The next night again he wrote
down his notes after his dreams, only
70 have the same uncanny sensation
the next morning at finding nothing
recorded
The strange circumstances set him to
pondering. 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 a 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
mand again to awake, although he
seemed at the time to be in full posses
sion Of his normal faculties. His eyes
opened, and the secret was out. He
found himself lying in bed. where he
had been all that night. His rising
after each dream had become so much
& routine that he had dreamed that
he had arisen and had made the notes.
and his dream was so clear that it
seemed Teality.-Outing Magazine.
Pats Deficiencies.
Mrs McCsrthV'S husband went ont