The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
DREAMS FOR INTERPRETATION
SUBMITTED BY DOLLY
Science Taking Up the Matter of Dreaming and Some So
luton May Be Forthcoming Curious State of Mind That
Makes Us Dream Human Endurance is Taxed Some
times BY the Awful Things We Dream-The
Garden of Sleep
ny DOLLY DALRYMPLE

, to death in dream and yet never got
ten to your destination?
Another dream.
|. Haven't you walked yourself nearly
downy pillow ofttimes mentally and physi-
cally dead beat" as 1t were-unable TO
push away from you even the covering
which you didn't want?
Suddenly you drop aft to sleep.
Presently you are on Fox Hunt"
The meet" is about to start.
You see the champion black hunter be-
ing lead around for you and your heart
stops beating.
You are to tired, too worn out, to even
hold him.
You might talk yourself black in the
face In q dream and nobody would hear
YOU everybody is deaf and so you are
led an unwilling lamb to the slaughter
never being able to get anybody TO listen
to yotir excuses.
|, You mount the black hunter, and be-
cause it's the easiest thing to do. start
off with-the others, but before you know
II your horse has passed them all like a
flash.
He Is headed for a rail fence; you Just
give up; you know you'll never be able
to sit In your saddle, but, prestoi he car
ries you over hoggy country lands. leaps
wire fences, stone walls, and great heaps
of brush, and you, miserable and weary
beyond words, stick on some how--fright-
ened to death. and the foxes, young, fresh
and alert, with maybe hours of good run
ning-always ahead
Who can describe the terrors of a Moe
turnal Fox Hunt, on a black charger
with the lady tired and worn and weary
almost ready to give up because she is
unable to accomplish the chase?
Now what on earth is the significance
of such dream as that?
Haven't you ever started on a visit to
friend in your dreams?
No sooner have you gotten on the train
than you discover you haven't on the
proper olothes-in fact, you haven't on any
clothes at all, to speak of.
The conductor asks for your ticket: you
haven't any, and, of course, the honor
able solution of such q situation would
be to get off the train and go back home.
You wouldn't impose on the hospitality
of even Railroad Corporation, but not
SO In a dream.
You go right on.
When you get to your destination your
friends haven't met you, and it's a little
Flag Station" (the one nearest their
country place. and you are dumped there
still minus the proper clothes.
This might be the end, but not SO. You
sit down quietly upon the bank-(there's
always a river)-and wait. Presently you
branching, influential horns, coming to-
ward you.
She's foaming at the mouth and her
head is down.
Self preservation being the first law of
nature, you dash down the track, to-
ward the station, with the awful red
COW close upon your heels, and at last
Ca FaI he
with a dull thud-and it's all over.
You wake up and it's just dream, and
once more you face things as they ARE.
The most terrible of all dreams are
those we experience when we are half
clad in public pla,es-branded as i'm
modest, disgraced, and ruined for life.
Eve must have been a very happy crea-
ture in her dreams. since she could not
experience this mortifcation-of dream
ing that she was stroling about the Gar
den of Eden, with only proper portion
of clothing on-since she was clad in
Sunshine and Climate mostly, anyway.
Some times it's shoes and stockings that
are missng-maybe other articles OF
clothing of more importance-but it's all
one and the same-terrible.
Where is the Dream Physician who can
explain to us the mystery OF our dreams?
Certainly, dreams are not always the
phantoms of our waking thoughts, as
has been often claimed, and because they
are unfamiliar is no reason why they are
any the less real and distressing, when
they take us with ungentle hands and lead
us through what some misguided poet has
called
1.-THE Beautiful Garden of Sleep"