Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1920 — Last Night’s Dreams [ARTICLE]

Last Night’s Dreams

—What They Mean

DID YOU DREAM OP FLOATING? -pv REAMS of floating are closely alU lied to dreams of flying, though probably not so common. Investigators who seek for a physical cause for dreams explain them as’ they do dreams of falling—by the skin becoming so highly insensitive that all impression of the support of the bed is lost But falling and floating are sensations so diametrically opposite that the eiplanation Is not convincing. Nearly all the scientific Investigators regard Creams of floating as purely’ mental, or psychic, In their origin and Greenwood says; “Every physiologist who, to the Best of his ability, marks out the seat of „ mind and traces the various communications of the senses with the cerebrospinal center, knows ‘ht every moment that when he has completed his exposition he will have thrown no light on the mental faculties themselves, nor have followed them a single step into the fields they work In.” And farther: “If credulity stifles the mind, skepticism is a kind of cramp; nor can there be much doubt that it,is felt by many who boast of It as a high sort of freedom.” * Hie mystic interpretation of a diwam'of floating in the air is that it is a favorable omen, unless yon snd-denly-dSse your buoyancy in which case there is, unexpected trouble ahead of you. If you should dream that' you are floating In' water it is also a sign of good business and much eopafort awaiting you provided the water Is clear. If it Is muddy look ou| for hidden enemies and prepare for a struggle. Tfie “occult” followers of the teuchfcg of Madam Blavatsky regard this dream as an evidence of the existence of the tral body.” But, according to Ellis, Caesar de Vesmey who edits the French “Annals of Psychical Research,” after an Elaborate investigation, declitres it ft be, like the flying dream, “a purely psychological phenomenon jmd no? evidence of the astral body's existence” In this Case the mystics would appear to be about aO satisfying Ua, and much men deflate than, ttq e^tlsts.