The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-03-24
STORY OF A DREAM
Curious S|umber Vision and Its
Sequence In Real Life.
A WARNING OR A COINCIDENCE
Whichever Of the Theories May Be Ss-
lected 40 the Answer to the Problem,
II Was q Singular and PuxxIins
Psychological Experience.

Psychological Experience.
The following real life experience,
which is interesting both as a story
and for the psychological problems 1t
involves. is related to the Pathfinder
by one Of It's women readers:
"In dream one night It seemed that
I awoke and found myself lying on
mattress placed on the floor Of room
entirely devoid Of furniture. In my
dream I felt considerable surprise at
finding myself In such a situation, and
I looked about in dismay and alarm.
Upon trying to move l found to my
horror that was weak and sick, and
fell back on the pillow exhausted and
much depressed.
"Just then the door OF the room
opened and n man entered. He was
extraordinarily tall and was very dark
and thin. Instinctively I felt that he
was my doctor. l asked him where
was and what was wrong. Slowly and
solemnly he answered.:
"'You have smallpox
AT this juncture l awoke, greatly
horrifled and agitated. All day my
dream stood out with frightful vivid
ness In my mind. At length In the
hope of relieving myself of some Of its
unpleasantness l related 1t to several
Of my friends. without exception they
earnestly advised me to be vaccinated
at once, and did 80.
"a few days later was In New York
city. As I walked along noted many
fruit venders with quantities of fine
looking white grapes piled up on their
carts. The fruit was so tempting that
I stopped before one Of the carts and
asked the young fellow In charge Of II
to weigh out two pounds for me. As
he was waiting on me l saw him cast a
furtive glance behind him, then despite
my request that he give me my grapes
at once, he seized the handle Of his cart
and with most of his fellow merchants
trundled rapidly away.
81 looked In the opposite direction
and saw man, evidently a city official,
who was ordering the few remaining
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coming I'm my direction, and as l was
somewhat incensed at the summary de-
parture of the vender before he could
sell me the grapes l wanted, decided
to wait and give the cause OF the trou-
BILE n piece of my mind
"On looking up to address him was
startled to find myself face to face
with the living counterpart Of the ply
sician who In my dream had Informed
me that had the smallpox. Recover
Ing my self possession as best could.
/ said, viii you kindly tell me why
these fruit men are so prosecuted? In
steady of idling their time away In sa-
looms or ON park benches they try to
earn an honest living by selling fruit.
I think this Is entirely commendable.
Why are they not allowed to conduct
their business I'm peacer
"'All this sounds very WE'LL replied
the man, but there is another side to
this question. These people are poor
and as matter of economy live very
closely, several families sometimes oc-
cupying n single room. Not long ago I'm
one of their habitations saw on bed
one of their women suffering with
contagious disease. Under the bed was
a stock Of fruit which one Of the men
took out on the street the following
day to sell. At present we are obliged
! to watch these people very carefully In
order to prevent a general spread OF
this terrible disease. but,'-and he
looked squarely at me-if you do not
mind having smallpox l see no reason
why you should be prevented from pat
ronizing the fruit venders all you
please
"For several minutes we stood there,
and neither Of us said a word. Then
the dark man walked Off In one direc-
tion and In the other. When | had
gone short distance something
prompted me to look around. I did 80
and was startled to see the man Of my
dreams looking thoughtfully at me. In
stantly 1t flashed over me. He has had
Q dream Of me and recognizes me as
did him.
whether or not such was the case
have never learned. but do know that
30 far I have escaped smallpox. Was
my dream warning, wonder, or was
II merely dream. and was my meet
ing the tall. dark. thin man nothing
more than a coincidence7'