PECULIAR DREAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2141, 23 December 1890, Page 3

PECULIAR DREAMS.

A correspondent of the Press writes to the Editor —“Heading in your journal of the particulars of Mathews Fidler’s peculiar dream, and your comments contained in a “ Topic of the Day," has prompted mo to relate a somewhat and even more peculiar circumstance in the same line that occurred to me a short time back. I give you particulars of it because you are inclined to look upon the Mathews Filder business as a hoax, or at least to discredit its genuineness, while to me, after my experience, the i circumstance related by your correspondent from Gotbenberg seems feasible enough. The surroundings of the case are entirely local, and are these: to bed one evening at eleven o’clock in > perfect good health, without during the

day or evening having experienced any undue excitement I dreamt that 1 saw Ja young married lady, whom I have known since girlhood, standing in a room in her night dress, her hair dishevelled, with blood on her face and garment. She looked greatly distressed, and addressing her by name I enquired what was the matter. She stammered out something I failed to recognise, which was the end of the dream. I rose as usual in the morning, and related my night’s experience to the lady of the house I lodged in. This lady, I may say, is an intimate acquaintance of the subject of my dream, and calling on her about a week afterwards she was surprised to learn that the young lady was just recovering from the effects of an illness caused through fright in this way: She had a gentleman lodging with her suffering in the last stages of consumption. He had been very ill, and fancying she heard something moving in his room during the night (the night of my dream), she got out of bed, and was quietly opening his door to see if all was right, when the lodger rushed out of his room, vomiting blood, some of which went on to his landlady, at the same time giving her a great fright. The lodger died that night. This was the alarming story related to me by my landlady the morning after her visit to her friend. Could anything be more “peculiar,” and could any story seem mere in credible? I related the circumtance to the husband of the lady, neither of whom bad I seen or spoken to for a considerable time. I knew not where they lived, nor was I aware that they had anyone staying in their house. Still these are the facts that can be vouched for by all parties, who are well known in Christchurch, Probably the writer of your “ Topics of the Day” will express bis opinion on this case. I was greatly exercised in my own mind over tbe peculiarity of the dream for some time, but had not Fidler’s case come before the public I should never have thought of relating my own. Probably the forthcoming meeting of the members of the Society for the Advancement of Science may enlighten us ou these peculiarities.”