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Show DREAMS OF THE BLIND. A new line of investigation In the phenomena of dreams has been occupying occupy-ing the leisure moments of Dr. Carleton Simon for the last few months. He Is endeavoring to discover on what cause people who have been blind all their lives base their dreams. It is a well-known scientific fact that the dreams of the normal person are invariably founded on some event or condition that they have experienced, a condition that involves sight; that they are retrospective and not prospective, pros-pective, despite the highly colored tales of our grandfathers concerning prophetic pro-phetic dreams. "What are the prevalent dreams of persons born blind?" queried Dr. Simon In discussing the matter with some of his professional friends. "The subject, so far as I know, has not excited Inquiry, In-quiry, but it seems of a nature to deserve de-serve it, as it might lead to some very curious results. Are forms or figures presented to them, cither animate or Inanimate, and If so do they bear any resemblance to their originals? Everything Every-thing thus flitting before the mind's eye must be a creation, not a recollection, to him who can only have gathered vague notions of form from the touch and who can have no idea of color. "Anyway, it's worth looking Into, it seems to me." |