The Washington times., 1919-10-25
Can Dreams Teach Us Anything?
Possibly They May Reveal to Us Our True Character

We frequently receive letters asking about dreams and
what they mean.
Generally reply privately to such questions and say
Devote to active wideawake life any thought energy
that you may have to dispose Of Let dreams 60 They
may deceive They cannot enlighten u.s.
But along a reader who points out that
Joseph made his fortune and built his family by reading
dream correctly This reader points out that must
question this Joseph dream it is in the Bible and that
Joseph had the habit of dreaming recty others may
have that habit
First say-wth all Difference to our readers faith
that many things happened Biblical times which have
happened since
At time it considered sacregious to doubt the
truth of revelation through dreams.
That idea has died out, happy to say. The
reader Of dreams now resides In basement side street.
ne does not rule over Egypt.
But since do not understand dreams, since they
puzzle the wsest and influence many who think themselves
free from superstition, no has any right to talk
decidedly about them
Personally we do not believe that / ~ foreteu any,
thing because do believe that anything
told-outside of Divine prophecy.
We do not think that dream truly tell you that
you going to meet absent friend If you catch cold
and stay bed all day. if you change your route to
the office you will not the friend If you keep away
from the railroad track you will not be crushed by the
cars no matter what your dream may say.
In Oden times they had the dream theory fixed so that
it could not go wrong.
First, there were dreams that came true-plain and
simple
Second there were dreams that went by contraries-
Third there were dreams that needed lot of expain
ing like the seven lean and fat cowdreams quite plain
when well read.
Fourth, dreams that meant nothing at ALL that
nobody could did read What about them? Very
simple-THOSE dreams sent by evil spirits Just to
annoy and terrfy the dreamer They were dreams DUR
posey made utterly incomprehensbe in order that the
dreamer should say to himself ''If can't RELY on NV
dreams, what CAN rely on?" and suffer torments of
doubt With such an assortment of dream readings that
there was no trouble about knowing where you stood
1t is probable that one REALLY dreams as we use
the word Real sleep is probably dreamless Your brain
minute photograph gallery filed with millions of mega
uves Everything you have heard in your life
stored away there. In Unconscious condition your
brain begins pulling the old negatives random
fashion without purpose lot of pictures and
phrases come up before you-a weird umble-and YOUR
half conscious mind the whole into some half con
nected story You wake up and wonder what it meant
1t simply meant-in humble and ignorant opinion-
that your mind running around on its own hook and
acting very fooshly What does it mean when your leg
twches IN your sleep? Certainly that you are going to
meet fair lady with fat fortune We think twitching
BRAIN working at night gives you little idea of the
future as twitching leg
But to the question often asked:
CAN DREAMS TEACH US ANYTHING?
To this we inclined to say yes-with reser
vations.
A careful study of your dreams may give YOU A
KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR OWN CHARACTER that cannot
be obtained otherwise.
What you do In your daylight waking hours is all
done effect It is done according to rule and
according to what is expected of you
Perhaps your real self is revealed in your dream
conduct.
This writer, at the age of eight, was pursued in
dream by very vindictive ghost She an old woman
ghost horrible to look at She from behind stump
to pursue the dreamer all the way home pounding along
over the ground with peculiar noise which proved her
to be ghost although the dreamer did dare look
behind
On reaching the house the dreamer-who, as stated,