Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-03-17
DISCUSS DREAMS
AND REALISM
Fortnightly Literary Members Lis
ten to Papers Which Provoke
Much Discussion

What causes a dream? Is the mind
always active? Is there any sig
Inificance to a dream? These and 9th
Ter questions were discussed in pa
per presented to the members OF the
iFortnightly Literary club on Friday
INvening by Mrs. G. T. Thuerer at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. E. M Adams
Mrs. Thuerer spoke of what a puzzling
question dreams had been to psychofo
lgists, what the ancients thought OF
them, and of the modern study that
has made of this strange working OF
the mind. Some think the mind is
always active, that thoughts are al.
ways passing through it-although we
may not be conscious-and others be
Ilieve that we dream just as we fall
to sleep or just as we are awaking.
Dreams seem to take no account of
time or space and by some are thought
Ito receive a stimulant from such food
as mince pies.
Mrs. Thuerer told of lady who
went to a market where she saw a
large fish and little later observed
la baby. That night she dreamed
she saw a monster fish with a baby
in the inside Of it.
Some people talk in their sleep, a
form of dreaming Others walk about
and often perform some task. The
reader said her father knew of d case
where man got up in the night,
shocked grain, went back to bed, and
knew nothing about it.
Another puzzled over an account,
studied it out in his sleep, andfmade
ia memorandum for the correction to
be made.
In the discussion one of the mem
bers stated it was held that in going
to sleep the memory went first, the
reasoning next, and the imagination
last If this be true the mind scould
be very active and the memoir not
know much about it most of the time.
This, too, would account for the fact
that most dreams are remembered
just as one awakes = the memory
awakes just as the dream is coming
to a close.
There have been many cases where
persons have dreamed Of relatives or
friends being in trouble or dying and
later learned they were passing at the
time. This is a queer situation.
It was held in the discussion that
indigestion, nervousness, disease, and
other phases Of our existence caused
dreams.
Realities
A paper by Mrs. Hugh Kelley, now
residing at 784 Chase street, Milwau-
kee, was read by Mrs. Clara T. Runge.
Mrs. Kelley thought that although
bdreams idealize life, realities are
stern and often severe. The truth is
ever so.
! She thought since the war it looks
las if we might be more alive, more
sincere, more sympathetic, more hui
man, and more truthful. Are we?
IShe wonders.
The writer took up the question Of
peace, the thing we are hoping and
praying for, and expecting great
things. We wonder why the dove of
peace does not construct nest and
Isend forth a brood to stabalize this
tottering world.
The average man or woman is al
ways at open discord with someone;
the great majority could not live with
out oft recurrant squabble. Men de-
bate, dispute, wrangle, and explode
then their nerves are relieved and they
are all ready to begin over again. And
gentle idealists utter indignant wonder
at the circumstances of war.
She said the opinion was advanced
, that Japan and Germany will even
tually unite and real realities will
then rattle the bones. 1t might come
to pass, who can say.