The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-15

The mind acts with wonderful ra-
pldity while its owner is asleep. bat it
also Is capable ~ doing greater work
than when the dreamer Is awake Sit
down and Try 70 write out OF paper
a Series or events that might occur
In a dream. OF course. The mere ply
steal acts Of wciting viii cause YOU L,
work slower. but notice your lack q
inventiveness. You have t. Cudgel
your brains to invent a plat. Your
background is commonplace And the
process requires hour of work.
II one is a natural-born genius. a
story teller or dramatist, his work may
be easier, but even the genius on &C
caslons has had % thank his dreaming
mind. Coleridge composed that mag
nlilcent fragment OF a poem. "kublai
Khan" IN a dream. He IA com
coined an entire poem while asleep.
ON awakening he started TO write il
down. but was called away from his
work. On returning he was unable to
remember the rest of il. and the world
was given but the exquisite portion OF
what would have been a wonderful
work.
Noltaire made a duplicate Of the
first canto Of the Henriade while
dreaming, and the "Divinia CONNIE
dla' was said to have been founded
on ad ream. Condorcet solved a diff
cult mathematical problem while
asleep which had baffied him while
awake.
Business men also have had SINH
larry profitable Dreams. \ confec-
TONER in a small city near Chicago
was o to move into a new store
Ihl Storeroom was of an unusua
shape and for some time hec ould no.
make up his mind where he would
put the soda fountain, various coun.
ters, and tables. Thinking of the sub
Ject just befOred ropping off to SleeI
one night, in his dreams he saw sucf
a store. Not only were the various
necessary articles Of his business prop
erly placed but the decoration schem,
was good. Awakening. he remem
bered the dream, and he arranged tn
new store exactly as it had been in hi
) dream.
Musicians often compose music il
their dreams. Tartini wrote tn
Devils Sonata" after having dream
ed it. But what is still more marvel
). GUS, people who know nothing of mu
: sic have invented wonderfully beau
tful themes while dreaming. Savage
and the less civilized races alway
! have had superstitions about dreams
: and some people in u own Unite
!, States buy dream books that tell whs
! dreams mean
The Fijians believe that the spir
f of 4 living man leaves his body
trouble the thoughts of the dreame
: The G~reenlanders thing that the so
leaves h body. The Indians
Guiana think that what they drea
actually happens; the events of tt
{ day are performed by the spirit az
the body using inside play. but
: night the spirit leaves the body al
goes adventurinS. For instanc
iThurn in his book. The Indians
/ GUIANA tells us that the natives
his expedition if they dreamed tn
> were beaten wanted liniment in Il
d morning to anOint their bruis,
- bodies.
n A powerful Indian called CAPITA
, Sam, the same book tells us. dream
4 he was told by the leader of the e
p petition to punish n of the negroe
On awakening, seeing no further a
= thOrity thar his dream commands.
- proceeded to beat the unfortunate CO
'r ored man.
le Men used to think that dreams we
- sent by the gods as communicate
y to men, and in some quarters the b
~ lief still fingers. The Indians
~ North America. having armed tn
~ fasting produced e~xtraordina
uIedIuS' pIdItlCSu oIdINdtion III OIo
to learn the will Of the gods. VIII;
ever was first seen in a dream AFT
re such an extended fast was the ma
III itou or guardian spirit of the life
Is tina Indian. and a man who becaU
10 of much fasting dreamed stran
4 dreams and cultivated the art OF {
re planning them. became a 'medici
er man"
IS, Plato. Aristotle and Cicero belieV
rs. that dreams foretOld futur events
n rightly Interpreted. ArtemidOrouS
er Enhes,s who lived about the mid,
on of the econd century, wrote books
re elaborate rules, telling how to int,
an pref dreams. Among other things
10 says that he who shall dream he
lost a tooth shall lose q friend.
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