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Show WHAT ABOUT DREAMS. j Odors. I i Dreams in which the sense of smell : is present are of the rarest. Yet theyj do sometimes occur, and th2t thcyi have attracted attention for a long time is evidenced by the fact that interpretations in-terpretations of them have bepn hand-) ed down through the centuries by the' mystic3. They account It a most happy hap-py omen to dream that you smell perfumes, per-fumes, and to tis rule there seems to be only one exception the smell of roscmnry In a dream is said to fore- ! toll mourning: though to see it and not '! smell it is good fortune. sAl other1 perfumes mean that you will be well!' i spoken of by your acquaintances andi .will associate with people of intelli-J "gence and standing; all your enterprises enter-prises will turn out successfully. But liet the married man whose wifOj j dreams that she puts perfume on her head look to himself; there is going to be only one boss in that household, and sho is "it." Why the dream consciousness, 1 which deals so readily and acutely', with most other sensations, should bei so chary of handling olfactory ones is " puzzling something for Prof. Freud p yet to explain. The scientists havoj! endeavored to excite "smell dreams", by the application -of odors to the!: sleeper's" nostrils, but experiments in I1 this direction havo not usually been;1 successful and Ellis cites an oxperi-' ment made bj -Prof. W. S. Monroe up-i1 on twenty woman students at thejj Wostfiejd normal school. A crushed ' I clove was placed on the tongue for 1 ten successive nights before going to; bid. Of the 25-i dreams reported there, 1 were only c'ght "smell dreams," and.l 'only three of those actually involved cloves. Tlie real "smell dream" oc-j( curs without any "objective" source .and it would seem to bo a most diffi-j' cult matter to force the dream con-jj sciousness anifically to take eogniz- -mce of a sense of smell. nn !( |