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| source title = Spiritualist | | source title = London Spiritualist | ||
| source details = No. 369, September 19, 1879, pp. 140-142 | | source details = No. 369, September 19, 1879, pp. 140-142 | ||
| publication date = 1879-09-19 | | publication date = 1879-09-19 | ||
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... | <center>By the Rev. J. M. Dixon.</center> | ||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|10-43}} | {{Style S-Small capitals| I well}} remember the time when young, middleaged, and old people seriously and deliberately told their dreams of the night and the meanings of them. Those people had their canons of interpretation for dreams, and some people were regarded by the dreamers as recognised interpreters. When it was shown that physical derangement and mental anxiety were common causes of dreaming, and that in the imperfect sleep of the night the imagination and fancy ran wild, the dream-mongers were not''' '''well pleased. But the fact remained that some dreams; were not the result of bodily or mental unhealthiness. It is held by some that sleep is the sister of death, that state of physical passiveness in which the human soul may sometimes have revelations which it cannot have when the body is awake with all its instincts and passions. Mr. R. D. Owen says—“But while we admit, what facts abundantly prove, that, in a I great majority of instances, dreams are, or may be, either the breaking forth in sleep of a strong desire, I or the offspring of fancy running riot beyond the control of the judgment, or else the result of suggestion, sometimes direct and intentional, more frequently proceeding apparently by accident from antecedent thoughts or emotions, there remain to be dealt with certain exceptional cases, which do not seem to be properly included in any of the above categories. To judge understandingly of these, it behoves us to examine them somewhat in detail.” Mr. Owen then gives several cases of remarkable dreams, a few of which I here transcribe:— | ||
“I remember while walking one beautiful day in June, in the Villa Reale (the fashionable park of Naples, having a magnificent view over the bay), one recounted to me by a member of the A—Legation, one of the most intelligent and agreeable acquaintances I made in that city. | |||
“On the 16th of October, 1850, being then in the city of Naples, this gentleman dreamed that he was by the bedside of his father, who appeared to be in the agonies of death, and that after a time lie saw him expire. He awoke in a state of great excitement, bathed in cold perspiration, and the impression on his mind was so strong that he immediately rose, although it was still night, dressed himself, and wrote to his father, inquiring after his health. His father was then at Trieste, distant from Naples, by the nearest route, five days’ journey; and the son had no cause whatever, except the above dream, to be uneasy about him, seeing that his age did not exceed fifty, and that no intelligence of his illness, or even indisposition, had been received. He waited for a reply with some anxiety for three weeks, at the end {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|10-43}} | |||
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london_spiritualist_n.369_1879-09-19.pdf|page=10|London Spiritualist, No. 369, September 19, 1879, pp. 140-142 | |||
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