Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathyPodmore, Frank
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Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy
Podmore, Frank
Apparitions; Telepathy
It appears that the death actually occurred at about 2 P.M. in England,
which was, allowing for the difference in longitude, about nine hours
before the dream.
In the next case the dream is of a more unusual character. The figure
of the agent appears to have stood alone, whilst the impression
made was such that the percipient is uncertain whether to class
his experience as a dream or a vision. Indeed, in the absence of
dream-background, and in the life-like appearance of the figure, the
dream bears a striking resemblance to a waking hallucination.
No. 57.--From CAPTAIN R. E. W. CAMPBELL
(2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers).
"ARMY AND NAVY CLUB, PALL MALL, S.W.,
_February_ 21_st_, 1888.
"I have much pleasure in enclosing you an account of a remarkable
dream which occurred to me in the year 1886, together with three
other accounts of the same, written by officers to whom the facts
of the case are known. You are at liberty, in the interests of
science, to make such use of them as you please.
"I was stationed at the Depôt Barracks, Armagh, Ireland, on the
30th November 1886, and on the night of the same date, or early
in the morning of the 1st December (I cannot tell which, as I
did not refer to my watch), I was in bed in my room, when I was
awakened by a most vivid and remarkable dream or vision, in which
I seemed to see a certain Major Hubbersty, late of my regiment,
the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, looking ghastly pale, and
falling forward as if dying. He seemed to be saying something to
me, but the words I could not make out, although I tried hard to
understand him. The clothes he had on at the time appeared to me
to have a thin red thread running through the pattern. I was very
deeply impressed by my dream, and so much did I feel that there
was something significant in it that on the 1st December, when
at luncheon in the mess, I related it to three brother-officers,
telling them at the same time that I felt sure we should soon hear
something bad about Major Hubbersty. I had almost forgotten all
about it when, on taking up the _Times_ newspaper of the following
Saturday on the Sunday morning following, the first thing that
caught my eyes was the announcement of Major Hubbersty's death at
Penzance, in Cornwall, on the 30th November, the very date on which
I had the remarkable dream concerning him.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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