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Ten Thousand Dreams
Interpreted,
OR, WHAT'S IN A DREAM.
A SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL EXPOSITION
{This book seems to have a different title each time it is reprinted:1) What's in a Dream: a Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams. G. W. Dillingham company, NY (1901) NUC# NM0587131.2) Dreams, Their Scientific and Practical Interpretations. T.W. Laurie, London (1910) NUC# NM0587126.3) Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or, What's in a Dream: a Scientific andPractical Exposition. M. A. Donohue & company, NY, [n.d.] NUC# NM0587130.(This is the closest match to this etext)}
``In a dream, in a vision of the night, whendeep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings uponthe bed; then he openeth the ears of men andsealeth their instruction that he may withdrawman from his purpose, and hide pride from man.''—Job xxxiii., 15.
``Dreams are rudiments of the great state to come.
We dream what is about to happen.''—BAILEY,
The Bible, as well as other great books of historical andrevealed religion, shows traces of a general and substantialbelief in dreams. Plato, Goethe, Shakespeare and Napoleonassigned to certain dreams prophetic value. Joseph saweleven stars of the Zodiac bow to himself, the twelfth star.The famine of Egypt was revealed by a vision of fat and lean cattle.The parents of Christ were warned of the cruel edict of Herod,and fled with the Divine Child into Egypt.
Pilate's wife, through the influence of a dream, advised her husbandto have nothing to do with the conviction of Christ. But the grossmaterialism of the day laughed at dreams, as it echoed the voice andverdict of the multitude, ``Crucify the Spirit, but let the flesh live.''Barabbas, the robber, was set at liberty.
The ultimatum of all human decrees and wisdom is to gratifythe passions of the flesh at the expense of the spirit.The prophets and those who have stood nearest the fountainof universal knowledge used dreams with more frequency thanany other mode of divination.
Profane, as well as sacred, history is threaded with incidentsof dream prophecy. Ancient history relates that Gennadiuswas convinced of the immortality of his soul by conversingwith an apparition in his dream.
Through the dream of Cecilia Metella, the wife of a Consul, the Roman Senatewas induced to order the temple of Juno Sospita rebuilt.
The Emperor Marcian dreamed he saw the bow of the Hunnish conquerorbreak on the same night that Attila died.
Plutarch relates how Augustus, while ill, through the dreamof a friend, was persuaded to leave his tent, which a few hoursafter was captured by the enemy, and the bed whereon he had lainwas pierced with the enemies' swords.
If Julius Caesar had been less incredulous about dreams he wouldhave listened to the warning which Calpurnia, his wife,received in a dream.
Croesus saw his son killed in a dream.
Petrarch saw his beloved Laura, in a dream, on the day she died,after which he wrote his beautiful poem, ``The Triumph of Death.''
Cicero relates the story of two traveling Arcadians who went todifferent lodgings—one to an inn, and the other to a private house.During the night the latter dreamed that his friend was begging for help.The dreamer awoke; but, thinking the matter