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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
38
In
face
of
these
difficulties
mankind
has
gone
on
believing
in
dreams
of
all
three
classes:
dreams
revealing
the
unknown
present,
the
unknown
past,
and
the
unknown
future.
The
judicious
reasonably
set
them
all
aside
as
the
results
of
fortuitous
coincidence,
or
revived
recollection,
or
of
the
illusions
of
a
false
memory,
or
of
imposture,
conscious
or
unconscious.
However,
the
stories
continue
to
be
told,
and
our
business
is
with
the
stories.
Taking,
first,
dreams
of
the
unknown
past,
we
find
a
large
modern
collection
of
these
attributed
to
a
lady
named
"Miss
A---".
They
were
waking
dreams
representing
obscure
incidents
of
the
past,
and
were
later
corroborated
by
records
in
books,
newspapers
and
manuscripts.
But
as
these
books
and
papers
existed,
and
were
known
to
exist,
before
the
occurrence
of
the
visions,
it
is
obvious
that
the
matter
of
the
visions
may
have
been
derived
from
the
books
and
so
forth,
or
at
least,
a
sceptic
will
vastly
prefer
this
explanation.
What
we
need
is
a
dream
or
vision
of
the
unknown
past,
corroborated
by
a
document
not
known
to
exist
at
the
time
when
the
vision
took
place
and
was
recorded.
Probably
there
is
no
such
instance,
but
the
following
tale,
picturesque
in
itself,
has
a
kind
of
shadow
of
the
only
satisfactory
sort
of
corroboration.
The
author
responsible
for
this
yarn
is
Dr.
Gregory,
F.R.S.,
Professor
of
Chemistry
in
the
University
of
Edinburgh.
After
studying
for
many
years
the
real
or
alleged
phenomena
of
what
has
been
called
mesmerism,
or
electro-biology,
or
hypnotism,
Dr.
Gregory
published
in
1851
his
Letters
to
a
Candid
Inquirer
on
Animal
Magnetism.
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