DREAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2678, 3 January 1924, Page 1

DREAMS.

YEARS IN A SECOND,

How lor o' do d roams last? This point has rover been really cleared up (says a writer in a London paper). But, the following instances seem to hear out the supposition that dreams are really of very short; duration :

As a clock began to strike twelve a man fell asleep and dreamt.

In his dream he ran away to sea. served on board ship for a. long tune, was nearly drowned in a shipwreck and swam to a desert island. No rescue arriving, he began to abandon hope, when at last a ship hove in sight and took him on board. He became a. ringleader in a suc-

cessful mutiny, took charge of the ship, and sailed it across remote and uncharted seas. At last, wearying of this life he sailed to England sold the ship and entered business on shore. ■ One day someone recognised him as a mutineer. He was arrested and tried, condemned to death and led off to execution. The noose was placed round bis neck, ami lie awoke suddenly to hear the last stroke of the clock striking midnight. Dreams are sometimes helpful as they bring back to our minds tilings which we cannot consciously remember says A. J. d. Ratcliff, in ‘-A History oj Dreams.’' A cashier in a bank found an error in bis books, and was extremely worried about it, as he could not account for it. One night he dreamt that a man came into the bank, withdrew a little money from bis account and left. The cashier also noticed that, in Ihe hurry, ho forgot to enter the transaction in his books. Remembering the dream Iho next morning, lie found nut that the error bad actually occurred in ihis way and was thus aide to rectifv it.