Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller
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feeling that is created in us by the discussion of phenomena.
This is how all science has been started. Well, and does not every one feel that we have here to do with manifestations from beings capable of thought, and not with material physiological facts only? ``This impression is superabundantly confirmed by investigation concerning the unknown faculties of the soul, when active in dreams and somnambulism. ``A brother learns the death of his young sister by a terrible nightmare. ``A young girl sees beforehand, in a dream, the man whom she will marry. ``A mother sees her child lying in a road, covered with blood. ``A lady goes, in a dream, to visit her husband on a distant steamer, and her husband really receives this visit, which is seen by a third person. ``A magnetized lady sees and describes the interior of the body of her dying mother; what she said is confirmed by the autopsy. ``A gentleman sees, in a dream, a lady whom he knows arriving at night in a railroad station, her journey having been undertaken suddenly. ``A magistrate sees three years in advance the commission of a crime, down to its smallest details. ``Several persons report that they have seen towns and landscapes before they ever visited them, and have seen themselves in situations in which they found themselves long after. |
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