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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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Not
only
things
once
probably
known,
yet
forgotten,
but
knowledge
never
consciously
thought
out,
may
be
revealed
in
a
dramatic
dream,
apparently
through
the
lips
of
the
dead
or
the
never
existent.
The
books
of
psychology
are
rich
in
examples
of
problems
worked
out,
or
music
or
poetry
composed
in
sleep.
The
following
is
a
more
recent
and
very
striking
example:--
THE
ASSYRIAN
PRIEST
Herr
H.
V.
Hilprecht
is
Professor
of
Assyriology
in
the
University
of
Pennsylvania.
That
university
had
despatched
an
expedition
to
explore
the
ruins
of
Babylon,
and
sketches
of
the
objects
discovered
had
been
sent
home.
Among
these
were
drawings
of
two
small
fragments
of
agate,
inscribed
with
characters.
One
Saturday
night
in
March,
1893,
Professor
Hilprecht
had
wearied
himself
with
puzzling
over
these
two
fragments,
which
were
supposed
to
be
broken
pieces
of
finger-rings.
He
was
inclined,
from
the
nature
of
the
characters,
to
date
them
about
1700-1140
B.C.;
and
as
the
first
character
of
the
third
line
of
the
first
fragment
seemed
to
read
KU,
he
guessed
that
it
might
stand
for
Kurigalzu,
a
king
of
that
name.
About
midnight
the
professor
went,
weary
and
perplexed,
to
bed.
"Then
I
dreamed
the
following
remarkable
dream.
A
tall
thin
priest
of
the
old
pre-Christian
Nippur,
about
forty
years
of
age,
and
clad
in
a
simple
abba,
led
me
to
the
treasure-chamber
of
the
temple,
on
its
south-east
side.
He
went
with
me
into
a
small
low-ceiled
room
without
windows,
in
which
there
was
a
large
wooden
chest,
while
scraps
of
agate
and
lapis
lazuli
lay
scattered
on
the
floor.
Here
he
addressed
me
as
follows:--
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
