THE DURATION OF DREAMS.

Shannon News, 11 January 1924, Page 4

THE DURATION OF DREAMS.

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How dreams.,last 1 This, point has never bwn re^' cleared up (says a writer in a paper). But "the following instances--seem' to bear out the supposition-that dreams am really of very short duration:— As a clock began to strike twelve a man fell asleep.and dreamt. .In his dream he xan. away to sea, served on board ship .for a long time, was nearly drowned in a shipwreck: and swam to a.desert island. No rescue arriving, he began to abandon hope, s when at last a ship hove in sight .and, took him on board. He became a ring- < leader in a successful mutiny, tooK, charge of the ship,, and jailed 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 Jo death and led off to execution. The, noose was placed round his neck,-and he awoke j suddenly to hear the last stroke of the clock striking midnight. ■ Dreams are sometimes helpful as they bring back to our minds things which we cannot consciously remember says A. J. J. Batcliff, in "^ Hfttoiy;ot Dreams." A cashier in a bank found an error in his books, and was extremely, worried about it, as not account for it. One night dreamt that a man came intq the bank, withdrew a little money from his account and left, The cashier also noticed that, in the hurry, he forgot to enter: the transaction in his books. Remembering the dream the next mormng, he found out that the error had actually occurred in this way ana was thus able to rectify it.