Article July 18, 1942 Issue

The Mortal Dream Is Untrue

MARGET HEYDEBRUCH

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 250): "Now I ask, Is there any more reality in the waking dream of mortal existence than in the sleeping dream? There cannot be, since whatever appears to be a mortal man is a mortal dream."

The unreal testimony of mortal sense and the remedy for belief in it were illustrated to a student of Christian Science by the following experience. One night, in a dream, a woman had a vivid sense of stumbling and falling on a railroad track. Glancing down the track she saw an express train rapidly approaching. With eyes riveted on the train, she became immobile with fear and horror. Even as the ground underneath was trembling, she found herself saying, "If only I could get up!" But a mesmeric fear deprived her of the ability to move.

With great effort, in the dream, she closed her eyes and turned in prayer to God. She declared the truth about the harmony and safety of God's kingdom. She acknowledged that God endowed man, His image and likeness, with the qualities of unfettered Mind; that there was no power apart from God to deprive man of existence in His perfect universe of ideas; and that God gives the ability to do right, here and now. The interesting result was that, according to her dream, she walked off the railroad tracks in good time; and then she awoke, perfectly calm and composed. How grateful she was that even in the night dream her thought had turned to Truth and found blessed relief!

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