The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-02-26
By ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
"Of such stuff are dreams made"


Dreams are, perhaps. the strangest
and most inexplicable of psychological
phenomena.
While it is the general impression
that everyone dreams, it is true that
there are many instances Of non
drea ming entities One man said that
he had dreamed but four times in his
life. His dreams. therefore, were sill
houtted against the background of his
life with intense vividness.
Others dream so often that their
sleeping fancies are a vague mass of
ilcoherence.
Many dreams are meaningless.
Some clairvoyant.
Often they are attributable to a de.
rangement of the function of a ply
steal organ.
Or a disturbed mental state.
But however or from what cause
| they are marvellous.
The papers daily recount the follow.
ing of some event-oftener than not
disastrous-upon dream.
The writer could set down some am
s.zing instances of this sort in her own
experience.
And, oddly enough, there are Ger.
tajr dreams common with everyone.
One being in some conspicuous
rlace, chiefly on the street, half-cloth-
ed or without clothing. This dream
phenomenon has been the subject OF
psychological COMMENT magazine
article of more or less length having
been devoted to it a few years since.
1t is known to all those who dream
\ Another is being borne along on a
swiftly moving current-the water
| black as night, the destination un-
known-but gliding on and on and on
with feeling of terror.
! Most can tell of that bottomless pit
| into which we fall in dreams-drop.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the
sudden awakening with a start or VIC.
lent jerk.
The writer remembers dreaming one
night of a sudden death. 1t occurred In
TIC house of neighbor Of her faith.
er's household. There was much con.
fusion. people running about in a dis.
tracted manner. coffin in a certain
position in a room of the house.
The next morning the dreamer
learned that an elderly woman in the
nejghbor's house had been taken sud.
denly i'll and her life was despaired Of
She rallied. seemingly recovered, liv.
cd few days after the consummation
of the latter state and then-pouf!
like a candle in current of air, she
| collapsed and died.
And singularly enough her coffin
stood in the same position as that
seen in the dream.
Some persons are especially obsess.
ed with dreams of the dead
The dead come to them. either as
they were as the dreamers knew them
or in some more eyre fashion. But
even in dream one views the one re
turning with certain reservation
The latter seems to know that he has
no right to masquerade as among the
quick. The dreamer feels a sort of hor.
rcr of the retranslated one, no matter
bow natural the seeming or how glad
the dreamer may be to see him again
visualized.
A certain resentment as though the
dead were poaching on the preserves
of the living.
1t is strange-this attitude toward
the dead.
We hesitate to speak of them. We
apologize for mentioning them. We
avoid referring to them. We have as
much timidity in talking of them as a
lover for the mistress of his heart We
lower our voices. We whisper
In short death is treated as a sort OF
disgrace.
And he who is it's victim as without
the pale.