Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1901 — A Form of Mental Recreation. [ARTICLE]

A Form of Mental Recreation.

Alluding to the popular belief that dreams interfere with sleep, a "physician asserts that dreaming is as much rest or mental recreation as actual sleep In some respects, although .it may not appear so on first thought. It is hard to prove this by actual experiment, because the conditions are so difficult to produce. There is a certain amount of evidence which can he used, however4| to prove the proposition. Time and time again when persons have been waked up by others they have explained as a reason that they did not respond quicker that they did not hear the call. Persons in a dreamy condition are much harder to wake than those who are sleeping, as they suppose, soundly. Take a parent, for instance a mother; when she is sleeping soundly, as she thinks, she can heather child when it turns over or moves: in its erib. Now, the same parent in a dreamy condition would hardfy hear a knock at the door or other loud noise. The dream so controls the brain that during its pendency the sense of hearing is blunted.