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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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Probably
we
do
a
good
deal
of
reasoning
in
sleep.
Professor
Hilprecht,
in
1882-83,
was
working
at
a
translation
of
an
inscription
wherein
came
Nabu--Kudurru--usur,
rendered
by
Professor
Delitzsch
"Nebo
protect
my
mortar-board".
Professor
Hilprecht
accepted
this,
but
woke
one
morning
with
his
mind
full
of
the
thought
that
the
words
should
be
rendered
"Nebo
protect
my
boundary,"
which
"sounds
a
deal
likelier,"
and
is
now
accepted.
I
myself,
when
working
at
the
MSS.
of
the
exiled
Stuarts,
was
puzzled
by
the
scorched
appearance
of
the
paper
on
which
Prince
Charlie's
and
the
king's
letters
were
often
written
and
by
the
peculiarities
of
the
ink.
I
woke
one
morning
with
a
sudden
flash
of
common-sense.
Sympathetic
ink
had
been
used,
and
the
papers
had
been
toasted
or
treated
with
acids.
This
I
had
probably
reasoned
out
in
sleep,
and,
had
I
dreamed,
my
mind
might
have
dramatised
the
idea.
Old
Mr.
Edgar,
the
king's
secretary,
might
have
appeared
and
given
me
the
explanation.
Maury
publishes
tales
in
which
a
forgotten
fact
was
revealed
to
him
in
a
dream
from
the
lips
of
a
dream-character
(Le
Sommeil
et
les
Reves,
pp.
142-143.
The
curious
may
also
consult,
on
all
these
things,
The
Philosophy
of
Mysticism,
by
Karl
du
Prel,
translated
by
Mr.
Massey.
The
Assyrian
Priest
is
in
Proceedings,
S.P.R.,
vol.
xii.,
p.
14).
On
the
same
plane
as
the
dreams
which
we
have
been
examining
is
the
waking
sensation
of
the
deja
vu.
"I
have
been
here
before,
But
when
or
how
I
cannot
tell."
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