Except for the conclusion, and the absence of a mystic bright light
in the bedroom, this case exactly answers to that of Miss Lee, in
1662. Dr. Hibbert would have liked this example.
2. (B) A lady, staying with a friend, observed that one morning
she was much depressed. The friend confided to her that, in the
past night, she had seen her brother, dripping wet. He told her
that he had been drowned by the upsetting of a boat, which was
attached by a rope to a ship. At this time, he was on his way home
from Australia. The dream, or vision, was recorded in writing.
When next the first lady met her friend, she was entertaining her
brother at luncheon. He had never even been in a boat dragged
behind a ship, and was perfectly safe.
3. (B) A lady, residing at a distance from Oxford wrote to tell
her son, who was at Merton College, that he had just entered her
room and vanished. Was he well? Yes, he was perfectly well, and
bowling for the College Eleven.
4. (B) A lady in bed saw her absent husband. He announced his
death by cholera, and gave her his blessing, she, of course, was
very anxious and miserable, but the vision was a lying vision. The
husband was perfectly well.
In all these four cases, anxiety was caused by the vision, and in
three at least, action was taken, the vision was recorded orally, or
in writing. In the following set, the visions were waking
hallucinations of sane persons never in any other instance
hallucinated.
5. (A) A person of distinction, walking in a certain Cambridge
quadrangle, met a very well-known clergyman. The former held out
his hand, but there was before him only open space. No feeling of
excitement or anxiety followed.
6. (A) The writer, standing before dinner, at a table in a large
and brilliantly lit hall, saw the door of the drawing-room open, and
a little girl, related to himself, come out, and run across the hall
into another room. He spoke to her, but she did not answer. He
instantly entered the drawing-room, where the child was sitting in a
white evening-dress. When she ran across the hall, the moment
before, she was dressed in dark blue serge. No explanation of the
puzzle could be discovered, but it is fair to add that no anxiety
was excited.
7. (A) A young lady had a cold, and was wearing a brown shawl.
After lunch she went to her room. A few minutes later, her sister
came out, saw her in the hall, and went upstairs after her, telling
her an anecdote. At the top of the stairs, the brown-shawled sister
vanished. The elder sister was in her room, in a white shawl. She
was visible, when absent on another occasion, to another spectator.
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