WHY WE DREAM.
A DOCTOR’S EXPLANATION. “If anyone doubts that dreams are only remembered if the dreamer wakens either completely or almost completely, let him try to remember in the morning any dream which he may have had when he was dozing off to sleep the night before. The author, in his own experience, has never been able to do this, unless he awakened up to a greater or less extent after having the dream,” says Dr. William Elder, consulting physician to Leith Hospital, in a volume of studies in physehology. “Dreams being simply the thoughs and ideas, imaginations of a person whose whole communal consciousness is not awake, there can be nothing mysterious about them. We believe with Sir Clifford Allbnt that sound sleep is dreamless, and that it is only when a person is partly awake that dreams take place. We knojy that every moment of the day in our wakeful state} thoughts, ideas, memories, pictures, imaginations, follow one another in varying sequences and vividness through our consciousness. Now if that be so is there anything surprising in the fact that the same thing occurs when the brain is only part-
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3778, 12 April 1928, Page 4
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193WHY WE DREAM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3778, 12 April 1928, Page 4
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