Dreams 35
there’s so many here I can’t get my work done, I always have a sick spell.”
It used to be said that if a dream was sufficiently vivid to make the dreamer notice and remember it, there was some occult significance in it that was worthy of study.
Dreams are often thought to contain information. Sometimes the information is in a realistic, sometimes in a symbolic form. Frequently the dreams contain prophetic warnings. Many stilt believe n dreams to a limited degree. The following are examples of what are repeated as dreams of proved significance. An old lady tells the first:—
“It was after midnight, and I was dreaming a dream about a terrible thunder-storm, It grew worse and worse till there was one clap so loud it seemed as if the skies had broken to pieces. Right after it I woke up, and I heard a knock on the outside door of the sitting-room. I knew that instant what my dream meant and who was there. It was Charlie I went to the door and it was. There he had been gone seven or eight years. He’d been a sailor on the ocean, and we hadn’t heard a word from him, and didn’t know but he was dead, and that
