reams?
This circumstance may, we conceive, thus be explained:

Those dreams which occur in very deep sleep, and in the early part of
the night, are not so likely to be remembered as those which happen
toward morning, when the sleep is less profound; hence the popular
notion that our morning dreams--which are always best remembered--are
likely to prove true. Then, again, the imagery of some dreams is more
striking, and actually makes a deeper impression than the incidents of
other dreams. We are told by Sir Humphrey Davy, that, on one occasion, a
dream was so strongly impressed upon his eye, that even after he had
risen and walked out, he could not be persuaded of its unreal nature,
until his friends convinced him of its impossibility. The effect of some
dreams upon children is very remarkable; they are, it is believed, more
liable to dreams of terror than grown persons, which may be accounted
for by their being more subject to a variety of internal complaints,
such as teething, convulsions, derangement of the bowels, &c.; added to
which, their reasoning faculties are not as yet sufficiently developed
to correct such erroneous impressions. Hence, sometimes, children
appear, when they awake, bewildered and distressed, and remain for a
considerable period in a state of agitation almost resembling delirium.
The incidents which are conceived in dreams are indeed not unfrequently
confounded by adults with real events; hence, we often hear people, in
alluding to some doubtful circumstance, exclaim, "Well! if it be not
true, I certainly must have dreamed it." We confess we have ourselves
been puzzled in this way; the spell may be broken; but the impression
made by the delusion still clings to us; its shadow is still thrown
across our path.

The question therefore recurs, What are Dreams? Whence do they arise? We
believe that the ideas and emotions which take place in the dreaming
state may be ascribed to a twofold origin. They may arise from certain
bodily sensations, which may suggest particular trains of thought and
feeling; or they may be derived from the operations or activity of the
thinking principle itself; in which case they are purely mental. The
celebrated Dr. James Gregory--whose premature death was a great loss to
science--states, that having gone to bed with a vessel of hot water at
his feet, he dreamed of walking up the crater of Mount Etna, and felt
the ground warm under him. He likewise, on another occasion, dr