The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-15
WONDERS AND HORRORS OF DREAMS
Weird, Strange and Thrilling Experiences Of Those
Wrapped in Arms of Morpheus.
Chicago Tribune.)

A third of q mans lifetime is spent
IN a land far more weird than any
ever conjured up by the most imagi-
natiYe Of writer's. For eight hours
out OF each t~wenty-four we dwell in a
country far more fantastic than that
If the Brobdignagians, the Lillipu-
tians or any CULVER ever visited.
IT is a land Of grewsOme horrors
infested with loathsome. terrible
heasts. the like of which was never
seen since the dinosaurs left the
earth; a land Of fairyland gorgeous
ness. Of insupportable embarrassment
or supernatural bliss. There we try
in vain to run from the burly criminal
who is pursuing us knife in hand
There we dwell in magnificent palaces,
more splendid than any we ever have
seen by day. There we parade through
staring crowds clad only in a bath
robe. And there we meet again the
old sweetheart who long since has
married the more successful man.
Again we are young. our head is COW
cred with real hair. the beautiful
country landscape is, seen through the
rose-colored glasses of youth, and we
are buggy riding with the girl we
loved 30 years ago.
Men flew through the air in this
land of dreams long before the
Wrights were heard Of. Men fall
HUM PiSNi I'M Ool SI
are injured. Highly humorous si:ua-
tons develop far more laughable than
the best of the stage farceS. Time
and tide wait for us as they never do
in real life. But even in this fantas-
tic land all men are not equal, some
men dream far more than others;
some men dream Ia ppily, others are
oppressed by a succession of unnat-
ural horrors: still there are stock
dreams that nearly every one Of us
mas Observation-Disclosures dreams, we
might call them.
Probably all of us have dreamed
that we were falling down the back
stairs or off a high cliff. then gliding
swimmingly off into space. This
dream gives the same sensation as a
rapidly descending elevator or a fast
swaying swing. We are worried fol-
the instant about what will happen
when we strike bottom, but we neve
strike. Either we are off on another
dream before that disastrous event
happens or we awake.
There is an old superstition that il
one ever nit the ground the SHOCK
would kill he'd reamer, but this j:
difficult of proof, for. as u Irish
neighbor might remark, the only wa!
it could be proved would be to hay,
the dreamer wake up dead and tell III
about it. OF the thousands who WrOt'
letters Il few years ago to an English
man who had published an essay Oh
the subject, but one correspondent ha'
dreamed that the fall continued clea
TO the ground. This woman dreame'
she fell off a tall rock. When she hi
the ground she was broken into small
bits. but a sort Of second self gathere'
up the pieces and glued them tOgeth
er. making a piece of humanity a
good as new. This dream, however
IL unique.
Dreams are peculiarly a persona
matter; one cannot lay down genera
rules for dreamers. The horrible fee
ing of being unable to move when pun
sued by some hideous hobgoblin ha
several variations. Some people az
stricken with q painless paralySi
their legs refuse to obey orders; otf
crs have their feet %entangled in SON
sticky substance like mud or soft CT
mcnt-in one case strawberry Jan
Sometimes the pursuer is a dragon,
lion, a criminal. or a maniac. Or
writer tells us of dreaming he VIZ
drawn towards a tremendous red h.
teakettle. but was unable to no
back or turn away-the opposite
thel asst class of dreams.
Parading through a crowd of Poop
In various stages of d~ishabille is
Common experience in dreamlan
as0h VI
ries with different peOple-sOme
us in dreamland are far more sham
less than Others-but the costume
each dreamer is always the same
matter how often he is afflicted WI
this dream and no matter in VIII
he appears. In all cas-
the dreamer ferries over the prObat
outcome of his lack of dress-he fea
the police or the ridicule of the crov
although the surrounding peO[
show exceptional tact by going chez
fully about their own business wit
out apparently noticing the costur
OF lack of costume of the dreamer.
n flying dreams as experienced
most of US starts with a Jump-tn
~, we leave the ground first by jun
ing. We paddle with our nan
somewhat as il we were wlmm
We 10 not fly high in the air.
skim just above the heads of the pc
pie. And we wonder why we ma