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Show II Dreams Are Deliriums Wjj H What makes us dream? For ages men have been trying to solve the 1 strange phenomenon of peculiar j thoughts which besiege us In our K sleep. There was a time when great I significance was attached to dreams. but In these days we pay scant at-tentlon at-tentlon to them. So grotesque and absurd are so many of our dreams that we often are ashamed to speak of them to H our friend? Psychologists havo ll long studied the cause of dreams. 1 They have tried to catch themselves I f" " dreaming in an attempt to look in on themselves when they were half H asleep. They have studied persons asleep In their efforts to ascertain what caused the strange delirium of the mind. In early history we have storle9 of dreamers. Early Bible history Is K "W full of i:. Th rulors of Egypt at H the time of the building of the pyra- B mids are pictured as having dreams the forum and there saw Julius Caesar, his body tilled with dagger wounds. JOAN OF ARC DREAMS SHE iS LEADER. Joan of Arc listening to the spirits spir-its dreamed she was to lead France and free her land from the yoke of Britain. Firm in the belief the dreams were messages from above she went to the camp and had herself her-self pla- ed at the head of the army. With her mind filled with the things she had seen in dreams she inspired in-spired the troops to such deeds of valor that soon she had overcome all opposition. We are prone to laugh at dreams. "I had a dream last night." says the business man at the club. "What did you dream?" queries his friend. "Oh. 1 dreamed one of the queerest queer-est dreams Imaginable." says tho business man. "I dreamed 1 went i' m 'Psj&lb. ' ' - :i " : "' H of great Import The Bible story tells of Pharoah dreaming that sev-en sev-en thin cattle came up out of tho Nile and ate seven fat cattle. All tho magicians were called in to tell what the dream foretold. None H could answer, so Joseph, the Israel- ite, was taken from prison to tell of HP the meaning of the dream. I i "It means there will be seven years of abundant harvest," said Jo-seph. Jo-seph. "These seven years will be followed by famine." Without hesitation the might; I monarch began to prepare for the Hl famine. He built large granaries H and stored grain to last through the seven lean years. The story tells how for seven years there was more than enough to eat Then came the seven years of want and Egy pt was the only land with plenty of corn. No wonder the people believed in Portia, the wife of Julius Caesar, is another of the great dreamers of t" history. Just as he was about to start for the Senate the day he was P killed by the conspirators, Portia begged him not to go, as she had H dreamed she had seen his body lying H in the forum. Caesar was unnerved H by the dream, but fear that ho Wk would seem afraid impelled him to Hk, ko to his post in spite of the warn- H Soon after he reached the forum H . he was attacked by Brutus, Caasius and the rest. A half hour later K Portia, fearing disaster, went to into the stock exchange and bought heavily. Then the market began to fall away. I bopan to realize I had made a mistake. In order to cover up I began to sell. I could not sell fast enough. The bottom dropped out of the market, and I was ruined." "Funny dream," says the friend and they dropped the subject. The business man goes to the market. If he feels like it he will buy heavily Just as though he never had dreamed. The dream means nothipg to him It's just something some-thing that passed through his brain in the niht. He sees no forecast of the future in it. In seeking the cause of dreams, Jack London wrote a book, "Before "Be-fore Adam." London explains the dream of falling by saying it was caused by actual occurrences in tho days of our ancestors. In those days the human race lived in trees to escape the ravages of the huge animals Infesting tho earth. The men slept In tho trees and fell. Now a peculiarity of tho falling fall-ing dream is that tho dreamer always al-ways wakes up before he strikes ground. "Of course." 6ays London. "Those who struck the ground were killed. Thoy left no progeny to dream about falling from tree tops. Those who woke as they fell and caught branches of tho trees were saved. They had children and their children chil-dren for generations have dreamed of falling." , 1 ITPPER left, dreaming she V is to ride a hobby horse. Center, dream of the snake woman. Right, Viola Dana taking the part of the girl who dreams in "The Poor Little Rich Girl." Central scene, dreaming of eating. Lower left, a dream of real happiness. Lower right, dreaming of grotesque gro-tesque figures. The dreamland world is a tremendously tre-mendously Interesting world. There we find people and things we never found In real life. The sub-conscious brain omits all the "ifs" and "buts" and whatever what-ever may be In tho subjunctlvo mood in our waking state is transferred trans-ferred into the indicate present in the delirium. This accounts for the fact that the blind see, the lame run, the poor are wealthy. Tho "If I were" Is changed in tho dream to "I am " DREAMS OF CHICKENS. WlinE Df LOVE. Dr. A- A. Brill, Ph. B, M. D., 0 New York, an eminent authority of psychology, had a rather interesting interest-ing experience with one of his patients pa-tients suffering from extreme mood-Ishness. mood-Ishness. He prescribed every possible pos-sible remedy; he even thought of psychanalysis and with that view, requested her to write out her dream or delirious thoughts and brinr them to him for analysis, and as a consequence, received the following: "I dreamt that I was In a lonely country placo and was anxious to reach my home in Liconow or Llconor Bay, but could not get there. Every time I made a move there was a wall in tho way. It looked like a street full of walls. My limbs weru as heavy as lead. I could only walk very slowly as if I wfcre very woak or very cold. Then there was a flock of chickens, but that scemt'd to be in a crowded city street and they the chickens ran after me, and the biggest of all suld something like "come wit hme into the park." This dream seems absurd enough. and as the dreamer remarked. "It was ro ridiculous that I am ashamed to tell It. Whoever heard of such a thing as chickens talking!" She was assured that it must mean something, and tho analysis proceeded. pro-ceeded. On asking the dreamer what the mo?t vivid part of tho dream was, she answered that It was the second part relating to tho chickens When asked to repeat the thoughts evoked by concentrating concentrat-ing her mind on the word "chickens" "chick-ens" she gave tho following: "I could only see the biggest chicken, all the others seemed blurred. It was unusually big and a very long neck, and It spoke to me; the street recalls where I used to go to school. I graduated from public school when I was 13 the block was always crowded with children from school." She then began to blush and laugh, and when asked to explain her actions, said, "It recalls the happy school days and when I was young and know no worries. I even had a beau, a pupil from the male I department. There was a male and female department In the same school and most of my girl friends hail beaux. We used to meet after school hours and walk iiorne together. to-gether. My beau's name was F. He was lanky and thin, aud tho girls used to tease me about him. Whenever they saw him coming they said. "Belle, here comes your chicken,' that was h:s his nicknamo among tho boys." On being asked whether she now understood who the chicken In the dream was. she laughingly said: "You don't mean to say the ctllCKSO with the long neck was Mr. F. ? " When asked whether she still kept up her acquaintance wth Mr. F.. she stated that she had not seen him for the last few monihs. but prior to that she saw him quite often. oft-en. On further analysis If was found that this early rehoolday love was still kept up. He had proposed to h?r no less than three times, but she had never given him any definite answer. She only "liked" him. and her family opposed him on account of Ms financial po:itlon. The last time she met him was at a military ball. 1 " ' He was an officer of the military or- , 'J gan'lzation and "he looked quite i-j handsomo In his smart uniform." S ll( danced with her and "was very kind,'" but lie did not propose. Sha fl frankly admitted that sh-.- hoped for a fourth proposal at this ball, and H that she was. quite ready to accept H him. She bad heard only recently fjH that he was paying attention to an- 'iR other young lady, a thing which jH caused her considerable annoyance to put It In her own words. "I can only blame myself and I'll have, to forget it " NICKNAME APPEARS W IN SLEEPY THOUGHTS. jH We see then that the most impos- A Bible and ludicrous part of the M I dream, that is. 'the talking of the H chicken." Is now quite plain. The I "Chicken" is simply the nickname UtP of Mr. F, who is the hero of the P dream. There were other chickens, f I,, but the were blurred, that Is, there 11. were other young suitors, but they J were relegated to the background. Miss Eleanor Gates, the author of "The Poor Little Rich Girl." is particularly Interested in all these the rle$, especially the one ') is (lie basis r all Freudian 'B deductions, namely, that every de lirlum represents the fulfillment of a wish or suppressed thought. A delirium suffered by a sehool girl chum of hers, who was rich in worldly possesions thought poor in paternal love, suggested the theme and most of the plot for The Poor Little R!ch Girl." and every time she sees Viols Djna enact the part of Gwendolyn In "The Poor Little RJch Girl ' she lives the life In fact anl fancy of her childhood chum, and with the same deft hand that the famous psychologist. Professor Freud, uses for scientific resenrolfi po Mis Gates hafe analyzed and dramatized her chum's wanderings which from nil accounts is as nearly I a work of genius as our stage often Her stge heroine's delirium Is I made up mainly of a kaleidoscopic jH combination of concrete Imngeft which embody literally the notions vial which have been conveved to hex. . . BlBijB r. nrrzz -sR |
