DREAMS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " 8PECTATOR:1 SIR,—Apropos of your article on dreams, may I remind you of a dream which I sent you many years ago, and which is very similar to the one of Mr. Greenwood's anent a question in a dream corrected and answered in the same dream. I dreamt that a lady handed me a written riddle in verse (which I read so carefully as to make it possible to commit it to paper when I woke). I could make nothing of it, and "gave it up ; " the lady then said : "If you will turn the paper over, you will find the answer." There it was, complete in verse, perfectly new, apparently, to my mind, and yet it must have been created in my mind before the riddle, or it could not have been a correct and logical answer. If I were at home, I could send you the date of the number of the Spectator in which you published the letter containing the verses—riddle and solution.
I will add a dream I had about twenty years ago, and with the account of which I have amused many friends. I dreamt that our family doctor told me that he was going to take a holiday. I inquired what we were to do in his absence. He said : "Oh, I have arranged with a locum. tenens." "What is his name P" I asked. "Duck." "Is he clever ?" "Well. I don't think be is ; but at any rate he can put his name on the door and go inside and quack."
Here, again, the answer must have been conceived first, though, in my dream, it was the creation of my doctor's mind, and quite unexpected by me.—I am, Sir, &c., A GREAT, AND GENERALLY CHEERFUL, DREAMER.
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