The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-01-16
REAMS--the day kind and
night kind--are being stud
led by scientific men. Many
have given the dream ques.
ton much thought. Have
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s99sAgI% have given the dream ques.
mi ~ ton much thought Have
Mszszs lock Ellis has found. as
have many other experts, that dreams
are merely the period Of existence of
another personality. In cher words.
when you are dreaming Of numbering
relatives, scaling mountain precipices,
eating wooden spinach, or doing any
other odd and abnormal thing, you are
actually doing this thing so far as
your inner being Is concerned. or
course your body doesn't move, but
your mind is having its day" The
bad side of your character, say stu
deuts Of dream philosophy, is apt 10
be shown in your dreams, or vice
versa. This may be regulated by what
you eat to some extent before retiring.
Work and play teach men what they
do when they are awake, but most Of
US know little about what we do in
those seven or eight hours when we
sleep and dream. Some people con-
slider dreams as truthful oracles re-
vealing happenings that are sure TO
follow. Others say that dreaming
means one of two things, either a
| bad case of Indigestion OF a worse
| conscience.
Scientific men do not accept any Of
thees explanations as satisfactory,
though there may be a grain of truth
in all. They find sleeping and dream
Ing interesting. but most complex
| state of being The most advanced
students say that people think and
live as much when they sleep as when
| they ere awake, and that dreaming Ia
one manifestation Of this fact.
! Dreams Play important Part
fIavelock Ellis, in 1.-THE World of
Dreams" states that sleeping and
dreaming play a more important part
In our lives than most Of us imagine,
The Importance of sleep and dreaming
Is unappreciated because ii Is difficult
to catch a dream and therefore to an
alyze 1t. The dream realized Ia only
fringe of the experience we have
known and never embraces the whole
consciousness we get In sleep. Dreams
are irrelevant, for so much is forgot
ten and omitted, and then the logic OF
the mind tries to patch It together
: after we awake.
As he explains: I'VE never catch a
dream in course OF formation. As II
presents itself 10 consciousness there
may be doubtful points or missing
links, but the dream is once for all
, completed, and II there are doubtful
points or missing links we recognize
them as such. j believe that there is
always a gap between sleeping con
seriousness and waking consciousness
| The change from the one kind OF con
seriousness to the other seems 10 be
effected by slight shock and the per
ception Of the already completed
|, dream Is the first effort of waking
consciousness, The existence of such
shock Is indicated by the fact that
even at the first movement Of waking
consciousness we never realize that a
moment ago We were asleep"
/. lie goes luIlHer, accepting the view
of such scientists as Foueault, Nockc
and Sir Arthur Mitchell, and hold;
! that the mind Is active while the body
sleeps--dreaming is only one Of ii,
processes. The dream the mind real
ly experiences Is different from wha
1t records when the body becomes con
scious Even In somnambulism 1t II
unusual for men and women to have
! any recollection on awakening. Thi,
. is because thinking done when thu
; body rests Is different from what i
: is when the body Is active--the one
. Is spontaneous attention and the othei
, is voluntary attention. These are al
different as the north pole is from tht
!. south.