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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
22
Thus
dream
dramatises
on
the
impulse
of
some
faint,
hardly
perceived
real
sensation.
And
thus
either
mere
empty
fancies
(as
in
the
case
of
the
lost
securities)
or
actual
knowledge
which
we
may
have
once
possessed
but
have
totally
forgotten,
or
conclusions
which
have
passed
through
our
brains
as
unheeded
guesses,
may
in
a
dream
be,
as
it
were,
"revealed"
through
the
lips
of
a
character
in
the
brain's
theatre--
that
character
may,
in
fact,
be
alive,
or
dead,
or
merely
fantastical.
A
very
good
case
is
given
with
this
explanation
(lost
knowledge
revived
in
a
dramatic
dream
about
a
dead
man)
by
Sir
Walter
Scott
in
a
note
to
The
Antiquary.
Familiar
as
the
story
is
it
may
be
offered
here,
for
a
reason
which
will
presently
be
obvious.
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