538 Richard J. Anderson, 



movements of the somnolent soldier or servant under command may 

 be regarded as almost entirely reflex (regiments have fallen asleep on 

 the march). The incidents in such cases may be forgotten if the 

 attention be aroused. Compare hypnotic (superficial) sleep and "night 

 mare". The morning gun has suggested (on the other hand) to an 

 Indian, the murder of a companion. Shakespeare makes Queen Mab 

 bring on dreams by reflex. 



"Drawn with a team of little atomies, 

 Her waggoner a small grey-coated gnat, 

 Her chariot is an empty hazel nut, 

 She gallops night by night 



Thro' lover's brains and then they dream of love. 

 O'er courtier's knees, that dream of court'sies straight, 

 O'er lawyer's fingers who straight dream of fees." 

 It seems that many dreams, omens, and prophesies, may be mis- 

 understood: "They will mis-carry, I recollex too many of them to my 

 sorrer", said the disappointed man. 



Deep sleep is a sleep unattended by dreams. 

 Horace says: 



„Atqui ego quum Graecos facerem natus mare citra 

 Versiculos, vetuit tali me voce Quirinus 

 Post mediam Noctem visus quum somnia vera. 

 In silvam non ligna feras insanius, ac si. 

 Magnas Grraecorum malis implere catervas." 

 A mathematician sometimes solves easily during sleep a problem 

 that gave him trouble when awake. It is evident that dreams may 

 register synchronous thoughts as during waking hours one person may 

 think collaterally with others (especially if they have had a similar 

 training), and one person may follow a mental course subconsciously 

 in the presence or absence of another who is thinking on the same 

 lines. This subconscious thought may account for the fact that Turner 

 stated that he never understood perspective, on which he lectured; 

 and Vice-Chancellor Maziere Brady's decisions were said to be in- 

 variably right, his reasons for them invariably wrong. (1) A dream 

 of the death of a friend, (2) of the detection of a crime, (3) of scenes 



