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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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As
a
rule
fulfilled
dreams
deal
with
the
most
trivial
affairs,
and
such
as,
being
usual,
may
readily
occur
by
chance
coincidence.
Indeed
it
is
impossible
to
set
limits
to
such
coincidence,
for
it
would
indeed
be
extraordinary
if
extraordinary
coincidences
never
occurred.
To
take
examples:--
THE
PIG
IN
THE
DINING-ROOM
Mrs.
Atlay,
wife
of
a
late
Bishop
of
Hereford,
dreamed
one
night
that
there
was
a
pig
in
the
dining-room
of
the
palace.
She
came
downstairs,
and
in
the
hall
told
her
governess
and
children
of
the
dream,
before
family
prayers.
When
these
were
over,
nobody
who
was
told
the
story
having
left
the
hall
in
the
interval,
she
went
into
the
dining-room
and
there
was
the
pig.
It
was
proved
to
have
escaped
from
the
sty
after
Mrs.
Atlay
got
up.
Here
the
dream
is
of
the
common
grotesque
type;
millions
of
such
things
are
dreamed.
The
event,
the
pig
in
the
palace,
is
unusual,
and
the
coincidence
of
pig
and
dream
is
still
more
so.
But
unusual
events
must
occur,
and
each
has
millions
of
dreams
as
targets
to
aim
at,
so
to
speak.
It
would
be
surprising
if
no
such
target
were
ever
hit.
Here
is
another
case--curious
because
the
dream
was
forgotten
till
the
corresponding
event
occurred,
but
there
was
a
slight
discrepancy
between
event
and
dream.
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