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- The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
Author:
Andrew Lang
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Transition from Dreams to Waking Hallucinations. Popular Scepticism about the Existence of Hallucinations in the Sane. Evidence of Mr. Francis Ga
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lton, F.R.S. Scientific Disbelief in ordinary Mental Imagery. Scientific Men who do not see in "the Mind's Eye". Ordinary People who do. Frequency of Waking Hallucinations among Mr. Galton's friends. Kept Private till asked for by Science. Causes of such Hallucinations unknown. Story of the Diplomatist. Voluntary or Induced Hallucinations. Crystal Gazing. Its Universality. Experience of George Sand. Nature of such Visions. Examples. Novelists. Crystal Visions only "Ghostly" when Veracious. Modern Examples. Under the Lamp. The Cow with the Bell. Historical Example. Prophetic Crystal Vision. St. Simon. The Regent d'Orléans. The Deathbed of Louis XIV. References for other Cases of Crystal Visions. From dreams, in sleep or swoon, of a character difficult to believe in we pass by way of " hallucinations " to ghosts. Everybody is ready to admit that dreams do really occur, because almost everybody has dreamed. But everybody is not so ready to admit that sane and sensible men and womencan have hallucinations, just because everybody has not been hallucinated. On this point Mr. Francis Galton, in his Inquiries into Human Faculty (1833), is very instructive. Mr. Galton drew up a short catechism, asking people how clearly or how dimly they saw things " in their mind's eye ". "Think of your breakfast-table," he said; "is your mental picture of it as clearly illuminated and as complete as your actual view of the scene ? " Mr. Galton began by questioning friends in the scientific world, F.R.S.'s and other savants. " The earliest results of my inquiry amazed me. . . . The great majority of the men of science to whom I first app...
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9780217066105
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0217066100
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8/8/2009
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