DREAMS OF DEATH.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 696, 19 August 1914, Page 7

DREAMS OF DEATH.

One night in mid-ocean, Captain Marryat awakened suddenly with the idea that someone was in his cabin, and, glancing towards the door, he saw his brother, whom he believed to be at home in England, just passing out. So deeply did the incident impress him that he rose and made a date of its' occurrence. On returning home he learned* that at that exact hour his brother had died. Mr. Andrew Lang has pointed oat how easy it is to make too much of the fulfilled dream oi death.

"As it is very common to dream of deaths, some such dreams must occasionally hit the .target."

He tells, for instance, how during the Peninsular War ' three brothers quartered at the Dover camp dreamt on the same night that their mother, living at Bradford,, was dead ; and it proved to be true.

But Mr. Lang balances this with a case of a shared but untrue dream, and the writer can add another. On a walking. tour in Ireland, he and his brother, who shared a bed, both dreamt vividly that their sister was dead. Neither told the other in the morning, both worried about it next day, and in the evening they unburdened themselves. That was 20 years ago,, and all three* who were then quite well, are still alive. —"Chronicle."