Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1920 — Last Night’s Dreams —What They Mean [ARTICLE]

Last Night’s Dreams —What They Mean

DID YOU DREAM THAT YOU WERE DREAMING? HAVELOCK ELLIS does not believe that' such a thing as to dream that you are dreaming is possible. For hfs part, he says, he has never had any such experience but adtnits that it has been borne witness to by many philosophers and other investigators of dream phenomena from Aristotle and Synesius down to the present day. In this connection it may be remarked that the literature of dream science is a large one and that the books written upon the subject by learned and distinguished men from Aristotle the famous Greek philosopher who died 322 years before Ghrist and was the first to attempt a scientific investigation of the dream problem—down to Freud and Havelock, would fill a considerable library. Moat of the scientists admit the fact of dreams* within dreams and nearly everybody has had suclf an experience, even thongh Havelock has not. Havelock says that when in our dream we say to otfrselves, “I am dreaming,’ we are not asleep really but have "emerged for a moment, without realizing it. to the waking surface of consciousness.” No one who has had such a dream will agree with him. The other scientists, admitting the dream within a dream, explain it in various /learned psychological ways. As for our mystic he bother® himself not at alt about psychology but declares that It is unlucky to dream that you are dreaming. For ft means that somebody is going to deceive you and cheat you out of money or valuables. So If In some complicated or unpleasant dream your “dreamthought” says: “It’s all right anyway; I am only dreaming.” look carefully after your affairs and keep watch of those who are in a position to deceive you. Journeys, unless absolutely necessary, are not recommended after such a dream. But its .special warning ir to be on the alert for cheats, ■ / (Copyright.) .