DREAMING AND IMMORTALITY.
DREAMING is claimed by some to be an evidence of the immortality of the soul, because it is said the mind never rests, but is active even when the individual is asleep. The following extract will however show the reverse of this: "In a case reported by Dr. Pierguin, observed by him in one of the hospitals of Montpellier, in 1821, he saw, in a female patient, part of whose skull had been removed, the brain motionless and lying within the cranium when she was in a dreamless sleep; in motion and protruding without the skull when she was agitated by dreams; more protruded in dreams reported by herself to be vivid; and still more so when perfectly awake, and especially if engaged in active thought or sprightly conversation. Similar cases are reported by Sir Astly Cooper and Prof. Blumenbech."—A. Cooper's Lectures on Surgery, by Tyrrell, Vol. i, p. 279. Elliotson's Blumenbech, 4th edition, p. 283.