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Show Why the SUBCONSCIOUS Mind Seeks to CONTROL How Science EXPLAINS I MYSTERY of DREAMS 'V Hypophyolo Theory Says That the Hypophysle la Responsible for Sloop. It la a Cland of Twt Parts WMoh la Located Just Be-lew Be-lew tha Optic Nervoe Within With-in the Cranial Cavity. The Blologle Theory Says Sleep and Dreams Are Instincts In-stincts Developed from the Primitive Reet State ef Anlmale, Whloh Man Inherited Inher-ited and Haa Complicated. ThyreM-Qtend Tlttery Seye '. I I I I I I DeepneaS ) 1 J J II j Sleep Is Caused ky a 111 I V ' lij Changs In Seer alien In the lil V Bleep I I I I I J I Thyroid Oland. This Oland 'i J JJJ I il J le Below tha "Adam's V Vw S S 7 I I ' I Apple" and Is ths On VWWx' ' (nlargad In Oettre, j.MAAVAy ind development since if actively VvvNTS .y wholly removed the receiving lm yOs' . bltions the human race aa a preaalona from ijVjv edge art the true cauae or the earliest Infancy IL" y- preeaed by tists aay that dream o instant of 'U d I i t?ln , . . . .. ronaHnuaneaa mrui it mrl- heard but tha the Sleeping BODY conditions which the mind is to determine hr means of memory as favorable or unfavoraBle to the welfare or contentment of the person. "Dreams are therefore, ' in common with all thought, important aide to our physical machinery, machin-ery, and are formed seemingly to rest the body by a pleasing assurance of safety or to arouse .the mind to action in an effort to protect the body from some threatened danger. Dreams or thoughts that dwell continually upon one subject are incited usually as danger signals and are commonly the product of a diseased mind or an infected physical organ. It is advisable when dreams or thoughts persist in this way to consult con-sult a physician, for dreams are not as Shakespeare Shake-speare says 'children of an idle brain,' but are, in this caae, aa well as all other cases, children of sv an active brain, seeking to arouse or to soothe the mind in Ha subdued control of the body Jn sleep. "When a person's body and mind are in a health y,normai 6ondttion,heoften has d y dreama which are of a pleasant character, recalling re-calling and visualizing incidents of bygone days. Such visions are restful to the man who comes borne tired, after long business hours and constant con-stant poring over books of law or other work, necessitating great mental strain. More often, however, we have dreams, which, as have been explained before, may be excited by either internal in-ternal or external stimuli. "Again, we can have a dream induced by internal in-ternal conditions, such as a heavy indigestible meal just prior to bedtime, which generally will produce nightmares. Such nightmares are always al-ways of objects previously seen but often somewhat some-what distorted. A nightly repetition of such dreams indicate a diseased body of mind, and it Is advisable for those having them to consult a reputable physician, for such dreams are but one of Nature's methods of warning the person-of person-of some physical ailment." ThyreM-Qtend Theory Says Sleep le Oaeaad ky a Change In Sosratisej la the Tnyreld Oland. This Oland le Below tha "Aaama Apple" and Is the One nlargad la Qertre. Duplex-Brain Theory Saya One-Half of the Brain la PuNy Developed. Wo Ueo Thla Half When Awake) tne Other Halfla Oniy Partly Developed. We Use the teee Developed Half During Sleep. that these have been seen at some time also. "When words are spoken, (Mlff-'VltafP lV0(akcT MS 4t"" shouting or declaiming, they are in the language or languages lan-guages that the user is familiar , or has heard. It Is during that the most remarkable exhl-of exhl-of recalled subconscious knowl-i knowl-i manifested. It is often ex-' ex-' the sleeper, speaking words in tongue, words that have been i meaning of which is unknown, clous impressions are recalled ntal picture that appears new I explains the nature of proph-reative proph-reative dreams, which, he says, rom subconscious knowledge. I-terrors common to the child nded aa well as most dreams nature also, are created from at complexes. Dr. Eifrmund Freud attempts to trace all dreams to Infantile and childhood complexes, because be-cause he sees hidden in every dream a wish ful- r) ilment that te, eU'oamo) express yeamhige, cravings, hopes and desires that have not otherwise other-wise been fulfilled. "Though it is true." says Mr. Butterneld, "that all oar acts, or thoughts governing them, are really directed by our desires, ws can hardly say that a nightmare or iiicaA-terror is a wish-fulfillment wish-fulfillment or a reflection of a wiah. "The stimuli that recalls knowledge to the mind may be an Incitement or spur aa intricate and elusive as tha thought that produced it It may be received eonaciously or subconsciously, and from without or within the body; thus we have dreama caused from tha want of food, or from food, drink or drugs, that abnormally excite ex-cite sensation. Cold, heat, light, sound, odor, all form external stimuli. Whatever form the inciter in-citer or inciters may have, they are all received through the sense organs or to a degree through the bone, tissue and other parts, as some investigations investi-gations claim and indicate physical or external ALL mental experience and development since man waa, have) not wholly removed the veil of mystery, and the human race as whole is Ignorant of the true cause or philosophy of dreams. Scientists say that dreams of all mental sensations elusive, fantastic or mystic as they may appear have had more to do with the development of the mind than any other group of indexes. No other operation of the mind. It is asserted, has the power to arouse the same degree of pleasure, distress or terror hence dreams have from the earliest days of human hu-man history exercised a powerful influence over the thoughts and acts of men. Robert Gray, in his "Theory of Dreams" . dent that new impressions are received and recorded, re-corded, as additions to memory, even at the moment of dreaming. "So vast and Intricate Is this store of personal per-sonal knowledge," writes Mr. Butterneld, "that the individual is unaware seemingly of the major portion of It, and it is only when some stimuli causes memory to produce a recorded portion-very portion-very often to the wonderment of the person that he realizes that he possesses the bit of knowledge. A very Urge part of onr store of Other subconsi to create s me or original." Mr. Butterneld etic, Inventive or are developed f Nightmares, nighl and the feeble-mi of a mysterious subconscious ment sense experiences are received subconsciously, and as the mind undoubtedly retains each and every impression through life, a considerable part of our knowledge Is subconscious. Subconscious Subcon-scious knowledge is recalled by stimuli just as is any well known impression. "Such biological facta are confusing, and would bo unbelievable were it not that every rational ra-tional person Is constantly experiencing mental reflexes that prove them. Sleep-dreams snd daydreams day-dreams are common to as all; ws all realize that our day-dreams at least are shaped by our personal per-sonal experience; it does not, therefore, require much reflection to convince as that sleep-dreams are evolved from our personal sxperiences also. . Wo are aware that many of these dreams are confused jumbled together a piece of recollection recollec-tion hero, another there, ao that no matter what effort we make we cannot, oven when awake, straighten them out "If this confused state of mental action is of common occurrence in reflection during our wak-, wak-, ing hours, we should not be surprised that sleep reflection is often jumbled, fantastic, undeflnable. Sleep thoughts ars composed almost entirely of impressions received from the sense of vision, snd for thla reason are rarely more than pictures of things, places or persons that have been seen. If the sleeper recalls words, letters, figures, drawings, and the like, it will invariably be found (ibuoJ, started what may be called the modern dream investigations, which have been followed by many theories such ss: duplex-brain theory, vaso-motor theory, thyroid and hypophysis theory, the-ory, chemical, histological and biological theories, and finally, tha present 1919 psycho-biological theory. The earlier ideas, of coarse, are supposed sup-posed to be wiped out snd thrown into the discard dis-card by ths presentation of thla psycho-blologlcal proposition. It is needless to say that this theory the-ory is already objected to and is threatened with extermination by a newer idea. In an illustrated article in Science and Invention, Inven-tion, William M. Butterneld says that dreams are memories; memories are recollections of past physical experiences. These sxperiences are obtained ob-tained usually through the sense organs. These operations arc mechanical, hence dream-thoughts are mechanical reflex operations, corresponding in reverse way, ws may say, to ths original spontaneous operation in tha memory centre. This being the case, a dream-thought can only be of soma impression already in the mind. Mr. Butterneld says that Innumerable cases can bo riven to prove the fact that dreams are mechanical operations of the brain and sense organs; that dreams ars created from mental impressions im-pressions obtained from previous experience, and that they are aroused by some natural stimulus, either outside or inside of ths body. The mind - |