ABOUT DREAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5238, 31 October 1885, Page 1

ABOUT DREAMS.

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A French physician, Dr. Delauny, tells some interesting facts about dreamt. These are embodied in a communication to the Societe de Biologic of Paris. It is well known, when a person is lying down, the blood flows most easily to the brain. This is why most of the ancient philosophers worked out their thoughts in bed. Certain modern thinkers have imitated this queer method of industry. Daring sleep, so long as the head is laid low, dreams take the place of coherent thoughts. There are, howerer, different sorts of dreams; and Dr. Delaunay'a purpose, in his original communication, is to show that the manner of lying brings on i particular kind of dream. Thus, according to his investigation, uneasy and disagreeable dreams secompany lying upou the back. This fact is explained by tho connection which is known to exist be* tween the organs of sensation and the posterior part of the brain. The moat general method of lying. perhaps, is on the right aide; and thia appears to be also the most natural method, for many persons object to lying upon the side of the heart, which it has been more than once asserted should hare free action during sleep. Nerertheless, Dr Delaunay's statements hardly harmonize with this. opiaioii. When one sleeps upon the right side, that is to say, upon the rieht side of the brain, one's dreamt hare marked and rather unpleasant characteristics. One'a dreams are then apt to be illogical, absurd, childish, uncertain, incoherent, full of macity and exag* geratiqn. Dreams which come on sleeping on their/right side are, in short, simple deceptions. They bring to mind rery old and faint remembrances, and they are often accompanied by nightmares. On the other handy when a person slumbers on his left brainy his dreams are

not only less absurd, they may also be .intelligent. They are, as a rule concerned with recent things, not with reminiscences. And, since the faculty of articulated language is found in the left side, the words uttered during such dreams are frequently comprehensible.