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The Dream-God, or, A Singular Evolvement of Thought in Sleep - John Cuningham
John Cuningham
The Dream-God, or, A Singular Evolvement of Thought in Sleep
EAN 8596547053842
DigiCat, 2022
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Table of Contents
PART I.
PART II.
PART III.
PART IV.
PART I.
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sleep was serene, the mind active, and the dream promptly and vividly supervened. A being in the form of a handsome and matured man, full of esprit, in a white and easy-fitting garment, with bright, broad and sweeping wings coming out from each side of his back below the shoulders, appeared to the patient at his bedside, and announced to him that he was the Spirit of Morphine, of a heavenly and immortal nature, and that he had come to carry him on an aerial voyage over many parts of the world; to show him many attractive regions and things, to introduce him to various races, royal personages, distinguished celebrities, etc.
The sleeper with surprise inquired, How can I go with this stricken and impotent body?
The Immortal replied, You must leave your body here; your spiritual being can accompany me.
Sleeper.—But I fear that before my return my friends may see and regard my inanimate body as dead, and bury it.
Immortal.—Fear not. I will restore you in due time to your body; and I will prepare you for our adventures as I am prepared.
Thus assured, the somnipathist crept gently out, headway, from his mortal coil,
glided over the headboard of his bedstead, glanced back upon his sleeping frame in his very image, then sprang lithely to the sill of the window, where the sash had already been thrown up by the Morpheus, and finding himself equipped with needed dress and wings, soared with his companion into the air.
Immortal.—What route do you prefer?
Mortal.—I wish to have a birdseye view of Charleston, (once my home,) by gas-light and then toward the Arctic Pole.
The aerial voyageurs were, as if in a moment, hovering in a slow, scrutinizing flight over Charleston, with stars above, and looking as upon stars below; and in front, athwart the ocean, a long line of light, gleaming from a newly-risen moon, invited their quickened pinions into the illimitable spaces over the far-bounded deep. Curving in a wide ocean-sweep northward, and