MYSTERY OF DREAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 328, 12 May 1877, Page 4

MYSTERY OF DREAMS.

It 13 related that a man ftll asleep as the clock tolled the first stroke of twelve. He awakened ere the echo of the twelfth stroke had died away, having in the interval dreamed that he committed a crime, was detected after fiye years, tritd and condunned ; the s jock of finding the i.aittr about his neck aroused him to consciousness when lie discover.d that all tuese events had happen; d m an inauitesmal fragment of time. Mohammed, wis ,- ing to illustrate the wonders of sleep, told how a certain man, being a siieik, found himself fur his pride made a poor tisherman, that he lived as one f>>r sixty years, bringing up a family and working hard ; and how, upon waking up from his long dream, so short a time Lad he been asleip that the narrow-necked gourd butlie I'd led with water >vhie;i ho knew he overturned as l.e fell asleep, had m»t time in wine i to empty itself. How last the soul traw Li wi.eu the body is asleep ' Often when wo awake we shrink from going back into the dull routine of a sordid iX.stence, r.greting the pleasauttr life of dreamland, flow is it that sometimes when we go to a strange place we fancy t:at we have seen it Lvf'-Ve:' Js it possible that wh- n on-j has .bfieij asleep, to soul has lloaied away, sen the place, and is it that memory of id which, so surprises us / In a word, inuy far di.ai is the li o of man ? in w far nut I