HE STUFF THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10592, 22 October 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

HE STUFF THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF.

.Srervone knows that when a man is jjaAjr lie is not so sound asleep as fahis slumber is dreamless. We im be told that dreamless sleep is ■ impossibility: that -one always as. though lie often forgets it. We • now informed, however, by a eonstor to Cosmos (Paris), who has iercd together some of the recent grcrios and studies, that sleep may Mite dreamless when the brain is ik at rest. It is only when the dsry or lower brain-centres awake, se the higher or intellectual ceuiiiill asleep, that dreams begin. accounts for the topsy-turvy, irreable nature of most ' dreaming. sa. will, and intelligence are not it in dreams, because if they were, aid mean that the higher brainis were acting and the subject I not- he asleep at all. We read: Is sleep in general, the superior ifem is more or less completely fel. Automatism reigns, emanci:ed from control, and the dream _is HEtit often directed by odd associasof Fords or images or by internal proked associations. A clock strikisraiids like a funeral knell and Bugs' to the dreamer liis"own burial or itia friend. Maury tickled the Jmi no.se of a sleeper with a ifir; the sleeper dreamed that he afa horrible torture; brigands had id a mask of pitch to his face and atom it away. A young man, as si by Galien, dreamed that he had sane les; it was the first sign of siljsis, which appeared soon after-

Ta the state intermediate between fin? and waking, at the moment a one is «; ( >mg to sleep or awakeni- h has often impressions that cores'! to nothing real and which have a tilled 'hypiiogogic hallucinations.' "Be dreamer is ti person suffering a hallucination. Halhicinations of *! preponderate greatly. Touch, ffl. and odour are sometimes affect- • hut hallucinations of hearing are feemely rare, contrary to what is obin mental alienation. ' -

'A dreamer believes himself to be in •at; he seos the judge, the jury, the staters, the witnesses; he sees the lie believes that he hears ■-; lie grasps the meaning of what •Jay, but this meaning reaches his d Without the speaker's voice. ... "lie most iueoherent dream occasions isarpriso to the dreamer. As- the Pit centre has been abolished, the events occur without exciting ; last surprise or the slightest Te- **•. Benjamin Hall dwells on the obstifin of the dreamer's moral sense. •Eve all led in dreams the most 3ial lives without feeling any sor- ':. Carpenter relates that a friend a deejjly religious man, was *'y aiilieted 'with nightly dreams: in y'uo committed all sorts of crimes •scries, murders, etc. — without i'eel,lje sliehiest pangs of conscience; si" fiv.r way. fear of the gallows. Tory sensation from without that 31 intense enough to waken the f*f modifies the course of his •~te and £ives direction to his The most important are the ; -e sensations of the skin and these Pwal sensibility."

sense of touch j we are told, pro'b•'.Sires rise to tlie greatest number -'Kims. .M;i X Simon cites many ?Pks of this. One of '"his friend's,a student of geography, had *! part c.f a very warm evening in ;;% a map .of the Central.. African *;_ hying down some time after, Wspirod freely: when he awoke, the S-ttation was running dowui his Jjl streams. This made him dream ; "is skin had become a map" of the !?J 0I Central Africa and that he eloarlv their bluish tints. The ;Vuvam ; s ~ >s ,, r ; cs 0 f hallucinations,

'J : •* ii'it accompanied by active .'*nt: i! u . ordinary dreainer does •Tu "'I 1 ' tll,os "°t write. dream, says Laupts, motor, because normal sleep liir'nt. and movements, no how sliglit, would waken the ;f r -. In other words, we may co'i"0I normal sleep without dreams :is ~-ftst <)f function of the siipericr [* (will, personality, -synthesis, as. s '?>' say) and of the secondary cennJ? ,?V ncr "l- Normal sleep with > 3 uiii'prs from the preceding by that the secondary, hereby -"relative, centres are in action. As motor images enter into play J Perior centre awakens and the |.® K at an end. There are ueverX -° aie e;lses where the superior T. ls asleep to such a degree, from j a £ aso or another, that even the ac- ;. ! motor images cannot awaken it. fj 3 Precisely the case in somnamif pnotism ' etc - These are more o'J e , s tntes of disaggregation of the Schisms."

r, Wt eiiers still survive among llan.li tllerc ; and there is living jsaudno an aged woman known r'% as "Miriam's Ogo." She *Jin 0I " n S e ; and till quite lately Hie Ti° ave on tlle side of il,e great femil - e s * le ore u l "ol I£"t U P *na i °/ thirteen children, one of ajj-J "je stalwart bowman of the jj wui o lifeboat. Miriam's husband. *inr Cave Illail - made himself a pair se of °fi of feathers for the pur'te n?' n K XI P and down the face iatj. n i*' '"it his clever efforts in 5i n «d at last to a serious acci-