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Show last Night's Dreams What They Mean DO YOU DREAM OF SWIMMING? SOME of the scientists go so far as to attribute dreams of swimming to- an atavistic reminiscence of the days "when you were a tadpole and I was a fish." It is a generally accepted accept-ed theory that all life on this planet began in the primeval sea from which the continent afterward emerged ; and scientists declare that rudimentary gill-slits are not uncommonly found in man, physical vestiges of our fish state. So they say, as these gill-slits linger in our physical structure in our mental structure there may linger "some faint atavistic echo from the primal sea." Freud states that In dreams of swimming as in those of falling, hovering hov-ering and flying a general statement cannot be made as to their significance signifi-cance thev siffnifv snmpfliinu rliffor- ent In each case. But he holds it as a truth that these dreams represent impressions im-pressions from our earliest childhood which are seized upon and made use of by the dream thought. These dreams of swimming are, as a rule, very pleasant ones and are classed by the scientists as among the "typical" dreams. The mystics account a dream of swimming to be a most favorable omen, especially if the water of the sea of dreams te clear and you seem to swim easily. To dream of swimming swim-ming yourself or even seeing some one else swimming, prognosticates a reconciliation with a friend with whom you are now at odds. If you swim along easily with your head well out of water you will be successful In love and business; if you are a sailor a profitable voyage is before you. But if In your dreams you swim along with your head under water you will shortly be called upon to face many hard struggles. You will win out in them, however, by keeping "a stiff upper up-per lip." (Copyright.) O |