Eureka Reporter | 1906-09-21 | Page 6 | Impressions of other Lives

impressions OF OTHER LIVES of such stuff it Is possible dreams are made of I 1 think very often our dreams are a jumble of ideas that we have in dented and that dreaming 1 largely a kind of tree play of what I 1 have called ancestral memory we dream of things which we have never experienced in our waking moments I 1 remember a very realistic dream it was a battle and I 1 was in a regiment of cavalry that received an order to charge the whole scene Is vividly before me as I 1 write and were I 1 an artis I 1 could sketch the face of a man who rode by my side I 1 can feel the throb of eagerness the thudding of the horses roofs in the mad rush as we quickened our pace to get to closer quarters with those we were pursuing suddenly the squadron of men in front opened wheeling off to the right and left and we were looking into the iron throats of a masked battery they opened fire upon us a moment after the ear splitting thunder and I 1 was in a hell of smoke dust blood and metal every piece seemed to sing a war chant of its own then I 1 awoke and I 1 was shouting god I 1 never knew it was anything like this here surely Is something ex perlen ced b an ancestor which has descended from generation to genera alon and taken its place in my col lection of impressions nineteenth century