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About Dreams

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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A most singular feature of dreamlng 1b the extreme rapidity with wliich images and ideas come to mind. A dream wliith may appear to occupy hours in oftoii happens to be comprised within a few soconds. A gentleman cnce dréamed of enlisting as a soldier, joining liis regiment in barrack-life, and deaerting. HU capture and trial followed, witk a condemnation to be aliot, and a leading out to execution. When the preparations were tardily completed, a gun was fired. The report awoke lxim, and he was surprised to find a neise in the next room had at once created the dream and brought its end. Th( case Is known of a gentleman whosf! liealth '.vas undermined by exposue to damp, so that if he feil asleep in a reclining position he suffered a scnso oL suffocation. At such times he dreamed a skeleton had firmly grasped nis throat. To escape such a state of torture, 'a servant was put at his side to awake ltfm the moment he feil asleep. But onc night the skeleton made a fierce and prolonged attack ere the slumber was broken. Yet when the watcher was rebuked for nllowini so long a dream, it appeared that it had been but niomentary, as the directions had bfcen obeyed to the letter.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register