For more than a mile the
sleeper trudged on until he came to a large poplar tree, which
had fallen with its topmost branches far out in the river.
Walking on the log until he came to a large limb extending over
the water, he got down on his hands and knees and began crawling
out on it. The frightened wife screamed, calling to him to wake
up and come back. He was awakened by the cries, fell into the
river, and was drowned. Each night for weeks he had been taking
that perilous trip, crawling out on the limb, leaping from it
into the river, swimming to the shore, and returning home
unconscious of anything having happened.
Dreams, nightmare, and night terrors form too extensive a subject
and one too well known to be discussed at length here, but it
might be well to mention that sometimes dreams are said to be
pathognomonic or prodromal of approaching disease. Cerebral
hemorrhage has often been preceded by dreams of frightful
calamities, and intermittent fever is often announced by
persistent and terrifying dreams. Hammond has collected a large
number of these prodromic dreams, seeming to indicate that before
the recognizable symptoms of disease present themselves a variety
of morbid dreams may occur.
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