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DO DREAMS FORETELL THE FUTURE?

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By SIR HERBERT BARKER.

remarkable real-life into the moral region. He does dream experiences wore sont not dream of some physical pain, to me by readers following but of a moral pain. In the cast my previous article in these cfted it was of the committal of columns on this fascinating sub-a crime most repugnant to the

dreamer. ject.

I propose now to prevent some There are groups of well-defined of the more unusual and striking dreams that most people have ex- ones and to offer wherever I can perlenced at one time or another for example, the dream of flying, some explanation.

the falling dream. All these have their cause in the physical state of the sleeper. The flying dream. for instance, is the result of sleep-

Valuo mearured in terms of inter- nal purchasing power, with or without the gold standard, Mr., McKenna says there seems no rea-} son to doubt the possibility, pro-i [vided we are not frightened by the term "managed currency" and can harden ourselves to some degree-W. T. Stead. of indifference to exchange pos sibilities. In this connexion, it is pointed out that the casential dif- ference between a gold standard and a "managed standard" is a difference of objective The Instru- ments are precisely the same, the Bank rate and "open market opera-

The first example I shall take tions," and they have long been

is one that falls into the category of dreams of future events. employed by the Bank of England,

"In 1894," writes this render: whose main objective hitherto,

The annual general meeting of the "when I was in charge of the ing in bare feet and is most likely with a gold standard in operation, Suciety of St. George will be held this heaviest section of a well-known to occur where the aleupor has has necessarily been the main evening in the Board Room of Mesars.mountain railway I had a dream suffered during the day from foot. tenance of exchange stability. Jardine Matheson & Co., at 5.30 p.m. thrice repented between midnight trouble.

One reader aska me whether whorens with a "managed stand-

During April the Friday morning and daybreak. It impressed me so ard" the objective would be

meetings at the Helena May Institute deeply that I rode off to the work dreams are instantaneous or pro- stability of the internal price will be taken by Rev. E. C. H. Trib and to the particular section scontracted?

There is a conflict of evidence "Five articles in my dream, and issued strict level. By its use of the two in-beck. The Subject in: "etings ordors that no man was to go in- on this point. Thus Maury tells

of n working crood."

of a dream of the French Revolu- struments mentioned, the Bank of

to the huge cutting, ara imed to begin at 10.30 o'clock.

"This cutting had been inspecttion that was like a long novel in England exercises a high degree

Suffering from injuries to his hand, ed only a day or two before by a detailed unfolding. It ended of control over the volume of credit, and, accorsing to Mr. Me- which was drawn between the wall the consulting, engineer and very when the guillotine fell on his

and the driving belt of a machine at favourably commented on as to neck. Kenna, with the aid of these son-6, Sharp Street, a young apprentice, safety with regard to the slope,

Solving Day's Problems. trols it should not be an impos-named Luk Luk, was removed to the

The annual general meeting of tho Hongkong Philharmonic Society will be held at the Cathedral Hall Omeo on Wednesday, April 6, at 6.30 p.m.

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sible task to maintain the stability Government Civil Hospitni yesterday

afternoon.

of the price level. It is true that

in

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"It was a serious thing to stop He awoke and found that a cur- all work on mere dream, but inin pole had indeed fallen where

acom.

in the United States, the central At the property auction sale held was obdurate for four hours. Justine Kaufe of the guillotine fell in banks have proved to be unable to at the P.W.D. office yesterday, Rural as I had decided to allow work area. Was this an instan-

Building Lot No. 330 Mount to go on-the contractors weretaneous dream? It would regulate the value of money in Cumeron, consisting of about 18,600 protesting and much pact, since 80.

Now an experience I have had consequence of Its excessive use in square feet, with an annual rental of careful examination of the whole speculation, but there is no reason $212 was sold to Mr. W. R. Scott at mountain side showed no signs of and which, doubtless, many of my ja landslide sixth sense urged readers have also had, invites ex- to fear a similar danger in. Britain, the upset price of $2,720.

me to decilne permission.

planation. During tho waking where the Bank of England,

By special request,

baffles ue. amusing "At that very moment, withontours some problem "Canaries Sometimes the least warning, the whole hill we go to bed and it is solved in a

tary policy.

The renewed strength of the pound sterling and the generally Improved state of affairs in Brl- tain are now attracting worldwide attention, as throwing an interest- ing light on the possibilities of a managed currency divorced from gold. With the breakdown of the gold standard, the difficulties and dangers of administering a man- nged currency do not awaken so much fear as they have caused in the past. The public is becoming accustomed to the idea that min takes incidental to this new techni- que enn have no worse солве quence than those which have re cently been experienced. The final abandonment of the gold standard may not be inevitable, but it may THE DRIFT FROM GOLD, well prové advisable when gold deaths.

countries fall-to' recognise their

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1932.

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the

chao

caso 1

casca 30 deaths, Cochin 1 death,

bogy

through the centralisation of the British fileened at the King's caved in and filled the cutting." { dream, or the solution is presented British banking system, is in a Sing," is being

Theatre for to-day only. This is one This is, of course, an excellent to our conscious minds on waxing. far more favourable position to

of the most enjoyable "comedies aver

of coming An interesting case of this sort deal with the use element of mone-seen in Hongkong, and shows Tom example of a dream

It lenda itself to ex-in remted by Professor Hilprecht. Walls at his very best, with

good events. support in the other three parts.planation only on the J. W. Danne He had had great dificulty in in- Those who have not seen it should on theory of time. It is useless to Lerpreting a Babylonian inscrip- no account miss it.

In his dream a Babylonian dismiss the dream as coincidence; |Lon. there are too many well-authentic priest appeared to him and gave The health bulletin of Eastern ated cases as striking.

um the explanation. Ports for the week ending March 19, This engineer clearly had know- 1 Imagine the conscious mind given the following cases of infectious ledge of un event in the future. concerned itself with the problem disease and the deaths therefrom: It seems reasonable to argue, then, and selved it; that the solutinn

cases 2

death, that in the dream state we may was presented in images for th Pinguo, Bassein 3 Bombay ease 1 death, Rangoon 1 denth, Colombo 1

not enter a realm wherein Past, Pre- simple reason that the essence of

the dream is Imagory.. Cholera, Calcutta 47 canes 21 deaths, sent and Future are one.

R. L. Stevenson, in "Across the Madras

G cases 2 deaths, Chittagong

The Mind's Censor. death.

Plains," anys that he willed him- cose, Bangkok Small-pox, Suez 6 cases, 2 death, Many of my correspondents re-self to dream of his literary prah- Kamaran 1 case, Baghdad 1 care late dreams of the horrible. Inflems and in this way conjured out Hom ases 3 deaths, Calcutta 44 Bombay 8 cases

one, the dreamer twice dreamed of the mystery of Dreamland the Karachi 3 cases 1 death, Madras that he was committing murder. plats of some of his best stories. In health I believe most dreams "I am," he writes, "the most In- cases. cases 4 deaths, Moulmein 2 Rangoon 128 cases 37 deatha, Chit offensive and timid of mortals and of a violent or unpleasant charan tagong

2 саяса 1 death, Pondicherry therefore completely at a loss to ter proceed from external stimuli.. 6 cases & deaths, Menado 1 case, understand why in my dream I am over-heat, cold, discomfort

the sleeper's position, and · sci Saigon 45 cases 5 deaths, Amoy 12 converted into a monster." cases 7 deaths, Canton 18 cases, Now the modern psychologist forth. Shanghai 20 cases 17 deaths. Cerebro dearly loves to talk of the mind's But in disense I think the an Spinal Meningitis: Macao 82 cases 46 censor. This entity stands guard suspected disease of the

over our waking thoughts, thrust sometimes manifests itself in the; ing back into the mind's hinter form of dream symbolism. For full responsibilities in the mana- it is often difficult for the histor- land all ideas repugnant to the example, there are a good many cases of dreams of bloodshed in Yet another country has decided gement of their currency stand-ian to make sure of his material. waking mind.

In sleep, it is supposed, this cen- battle or catastrophe which have- the dreamer im- to go off the gold standard, the ard,

For manuscripts of historic value

sor goes off duty and thus our occurred to news being contained in an an-

that have not yet been secured by innate and suppressed wickedness mediately before serious haemorr- nouncement

now recognised. to this effect from

untional institutions have of Inte gets free play in the pintnay hage. : Such are Checking Up flomer.

and known as prodromic dreams. Chile. One by one, countries are

shown a tendency to migrate realm of dreamland.-- I believe in many

Perhaps the cases thly

most remarkable Archaeology, has within the last through the public auction room following the British lead, and

century made there is much speculation as to half

several to different countries, and not theory is applicable. But not to dream on record is that vouched. the case mentioned above. There for by the eminent French avx- how much farther the process will important contributions to little infrequently a collection of docu I think a much less subtle theory geon, Dr. Clequet. I confess continue. A few days ago, a mes. known or only vaguely surraised ments is dispersed among several meets the facts.

can offer no interpretation of it.. sage from Washington suggested facts of ancient history. Perhaps owners with the result that in- There are a large number of but, maybe, one of my readers that doubly whether even the the most striking of these is the sortant facts are sometimes dif- dreams that result from external can.

Dr. Cloquet had as patient a United States can continue to confirmation in a number of inficult to trace to their source. In atimuli. For example,, the bed-

stances of what have maintain the gold standard are

hitherto deed, the whole question of the clothes slide off and the dreamer lady who declined anaesthetics for dreams of freezingo Aretic a major operation. He decided to assailing thoughtful nepple. Mr. been regarded as more imagina-preservation of records in skin snow. Or-an-actual cane cited operate after inducing a hypnotic Reginald McKenna..the Chairman live embroideries of the greatest ing special attention of historicul by Maurya dream of a sea dis-sleep. He also decided to hypnot

research bodies, and it is encourag-nster and the blowing up of ise his patient's" daughter. of the Midland Bank, in a recent, of poets of old, who, it was as-

the During the operation, Dr. Clo- speech, raised the question whe-sumed, fed on legends and wanging to learn that an attempt is now powder magazine followed ther gold is for ever to remain the of events that never took place being made to compile a census of burning of a sulphur match nearquet kept up a running fire of questions to the sleeping girl as atandard of money values, however and of places that never existed. historical manuscripts to be found the sleeper.

But sometimes physical discom- to the condition of her mother.. in Great Britain.

fort of the sleeper is translated To his surprise, her answers made well or ill it is made to work. In It was Heinrich Schlemanni, a German business man, who first

it apparent that she could see the his view, the most rational answer discovered the site of the famous

alte and condition as though view In this question would seem to be;

ing it through a surgical wound.. elty of Trry, and recently it was that, if the gold standard ennnot; work without depressing or even reported that Sir Rennell Rodd, the eminent English diplomatist ruining trade, the proper course

would must be to seek another and better and authority on Homer,

search the Mediterranean island i one. He is afraid, however, that the financial authorities of the of Thiaki for the site of Ulysses" world, with their deep-rooted tra-palace. It is true that there is ditions and long-established prac-[still apparently a certain doubt as tice, will not be easily moved to to whether the modern island of consider the question on its merits. Think is re-Ithaca of Homer; It is conceivable, however, that for the grottoes, cliffs and jagged economic developments may force reefs of that sunny island, fami- Har to every reader of the Odya- the issuo to a decision.

com-

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Buccessor

It is interesting to note some sey, fall to correspond to the topo- other points made by Mr. McKenna graphical peculiarities of Thiaki, who, Incidentally, faveurs inter- a fact that is sufficient to convinc

Schilemann'a national co-operation on the silver Prof. W. Doerfeld, question. Many people in the larger island in the same group in Germany, that a dustrial and comimercial

was more probably the home of munity, says this authority, take Odyssous. But Sir Ronnell Rodd an entirely detached view of the and Victor Berard, the French gold standard. For them it is a

Homeric scholar, are of the opin- matter of practical convenience,ion that the discrepancies between subject to the general aim of enHomer's descriptions of Ithaca suring the highest possible degree and the actual scenery of Thinki of justice between dobtor and cre- ditor on existing obligations. Let are only the natural consequences of the noatle imagination which. the gold standard be made to work in the famous phrase of Word- satisfactorily, giving a stable value to money, and there will be a readi-sworth, takes its origin from emo- tion recollected in tranquillity. ness to go back to it. On the While it has always been difficult other hand, if it continues to work to discern where, in heroic poetry as in recent years, with a con- or legendary mythology, fact stantly depressing effect on prices, merges into fable, every endej there will inevitably be a call for your to do so dezervos to succecil. some other method of controlling in this connexión, however, the the value of money. On the ques-curious fact should not be forgot- tion of the possibility of maia-ten that oven within the sphere of taining the pound at a constant well-authenticated historical data

TOTAL VEN

"Wait'll you've been on the job as long as I have and you'll now when the base is just trying to bluft you,'

Prophecy Fulfilled.

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But the most astonishing thing took place when Dr. Cloquet asked for a prognosis. The daughter then answered quite clearl "Mother will die to-morrow 1. peace and without pain." This prophecy was fulfilled.

Here there are many mysterics, indeed, and so many implications that I must play coward and de- eline to grapple with them.

The exploration of dreamland for the purpose of unearthin mental conflicts has been instru- mental in giving dreamland Important place In modern med!- cine.

un

The brilliant interpretation of dreama carried out by Professor Freud throws a flood of sane light upon much that is mysterious in human'

has. personality. He shown us that the suppressca wishes thrust. back in daytime in- to the sub-conscious mind

may. emorge in the form of the syra- bolic dream. But the suppressed wish has been one rapuganat to the moral senso of the waking person. Now, in dreamland, it emorges. But not openly. It comes masked in imnges, ¦ in themselves morely pleasant or beautiful fantastic.

...

For the Specialist.

It is thous strange dreams of the neurotic and mentally opprase: ed that Fraud Interprete, Intę. most of them he reads "primitive instincts, long thrust down Into the unconscious mind until they. have impaired, the health of the (Continued on PagsY)