DREAMS MADE TO ORDER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 23, 17 June 1914, Page 2

DREAMS MADE TO ORDER.

BRAIN WAVES TO INFLUENCE A SLEEPER'S THOUGHT.

A startling theory of the nature of dreams is advanced by Dr. H. Rahmet, an Egyptian physician, in practice in Cairo.

Dr. Ralimet, writing in tlic New York Medical Eecord, declares that there are persons who, hy concentrating" 'their minds sufficiently, can make other persons dream of tiiem. "Every cell emits specific vibrations, much as radium emits scientific rays." he writes. "These vibrations are propagated by ethereal waves much as the air propagates the waves given off by the wireless telepathic instrument. For the interception of these a specific medium is necessary. "Sleep under special influences (probably some chemical affinity) renders th« sleeper a favorable medium to intercept and interpret the telepathic waves. The latter may travel from non-living to the living; these waves may likewise pass between living organisms of different classes, such as between a dog and his master." •

Dr. Rahmet thinks that the frontal lobes of the cerebrum, with the fune tions of which we are only vaguely e-n----quainted, may be potential "receiving stations for thought waves. ' "A day might dawn," he savs, "when wc might easily read the thoughts of each other by applying a special mask or apparatus to intercept the waxes emitted from the brain as a sequence to its activity." The writer asks why a sleeping person may not be in a state similar to that of hypnotism, and therefore a lit receptacle for telepathic waves, jn that case he would have telepathic, dreams. The nature and vividness of these would depend on the concentration of the mind of the prson emitting the waves. Dr. Rahmet asserts that he has already proved that the image of the person or object thought of is under certain conditions conjured up by the sleeper.