According to Dana, Albers says:
"Frightful dreams are signs of cerebral congestion. Dreams about
fire are, in women, signs of impending hemorrhage. Dreams about
blood and red objects are signs of inflammatory conditions.
Dreams of distorted forms are frequently a sign of abdominal
obstruction and diseases of the liver."
Catalepsy, trance, and lethargy, lasting for days or weeks, are
really examples of spontaneously developed mesmeric sleep in
hysteric patients or subjects of incipient insanity. If the
phenomenon in these cases takes the form of catalepsy there is a
waxy-like rigidity of the muscles which will allow the limbs to
be placed in various positions, and maintain them so for minutes
or even hours. In lethargy or trance-states the patient may be
plunged into a deep and prolonged unconsciousness lasting from a
few hours to several years. It is in this condition that the lay
journals find argument for their stories of premature burial, and
from the same source the fabulous "sleeping girls" of the
newspapers arise. Dana says that some persons are in the habit of
going into a mesmeric sleep spontaneously. In these states there
may be a lowering of bodily temperature, a retarding of the
respiration and heart-action, and excessive sluggishness of the
action of the bowels.
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