The psychograph and spiritualistic wonders--The grandfather the medium's "guide" or "control"--Ulrich von Gerbenstein--The somnambulic personalities have access to the medium's memory--Ivenes--S. W.'s amnesia for her ecstasies--Later séances--Her journeys on the other side--Oracular sayings--Conventi--Ivenes' dignity and superiority to her "guides"--Her previous incarnations--Her race-motherhood. MYSTIC SCIENCE AND MYSTIC SYSTEM OF POWERS 40 Her growing wilful deception--The waking state--Her peculiarities--Instability--Hysterical tendencies--Misreading--Errors of dispersion of attention discussed. SEMI-SOMNAMBULISM 48 AUTOMATISMS 49 Table movements--Unconscious motor phenomena--Verbal suggestion and auto-suggestion--The experimenter's participation--The medium's unconscious response--Thought-reading--Table-tilting experiment, illustrated--Experiments with beginners--Myers' experiments in automatic writing--Janet's conversation with Lucie's subconsciousness--Example of the way the subconscious personality is constructed--Hallucinations appear with deepening hypnosis; some contributing factors--Comparison between dream symbols and appearance of somnambulic personalities--Extension of the unconscious sphere--The somnambulist's thinking is in plastic images, which are made objective in hallucinations--Why visual and not auditory hallucinations occur--Origin of hypnagogic hallucinations--Those of Jeanne d'Arc and others. THE CHANGE IN CHARACTER 64 Noticeable in S. W.'s case, also in Mary Reynolds'--Association with amnesic disturbances--Influence of puberty in our case--S. W.'s systematic anæsthesia--Ivenes not so much a case of double consciousness as one in which she dreams herself into a higher ideal state--Similar pathological dreaming found in the lives of saints--Mechanism of hysterical identification--S. W.'s dreams break out explosively--Their origin and meaning, and their subjective roots. RELATION TO THE HYSTERICAL ATTACK 75