Dreams, relation of, to illusions of sense, 18, 130;
and waking experience, 127;
theories of, 128;
physiology of, 131;
extent of, in sleep, 132;
psychological conditions of, 136;
excitants of, 139, 143;
exaggeration in, 147;
symbolism of, 149;
as results of automatic activity of centres, 151;
as results of association, 153;
structure of, 156;
incoherent, 156;
coherent, 161;
action of feeling in, 164;
play of associative dispositions in, 168;
co-operation of attention and intelligence in, 172;
limits of intelligence in, 180;
after-dreams, 183, 274;
relation of, to hypnotic condition, 185;
experience of, in relation to errors of memory, 273.
E.
Eccentricity, law of, 59.
Ego. _See_ Self.
Emotion, and illusion of perception, 103;
and hallucination, 115;
and bodily sensations, 150;
control of dreams by, 164;
introspection of, 199;
and illusion of introspection, 203;
and aesthetic intuition, 213;
and illusion of memory, 270;
and illusion of belief, 306, 324;
and cognition generally, 357, note[159].
Empiricism, philosophic, 348.
_Ennui_, and sense of time, 250.
Environment, sources of sense-illusion in, 47, 48, 70;
view of, in mental disease, 290, 326;
view of, in normal life, 323;
action of, in assimilating belief, 339.
Error, immediate and mediate, 6, 334.
Esquirol, J.E.D., 12, note[2].
Evolution, relation of, to dissolution, 122;
of power of introspection, 209;
of power of insight, 230;
and self-assertion, 320;
evolutionist's view of error, 339;
doctrine of, as science, 346.
Exaggeration, in interpretation of sensations, 65;
in dream-interpretation, 147;
in memory, 269.
Expectation, preliminary to perception, 30;
and illusory perception, 93, 102, 106;
nature of, 295;
and memory, 298;
of new experience, 301;
of remote events, 302;
measurement of duration in, 302;
action of imagination in, 305;
extension of meaning of, 307, 308.
Experience, effect of, in perception, 22, 68, 85, 86, 91;
external and internal, 194, 210;
revivals of waking, in dreams, 152;
effects of present, on retrospection, 267;
anticipation of new, 301.
External world. _See_ World.
F.
Fallacy and illusion 6, 335;
of testimony, 265.
Familiarity, sense of, in new objects, 272, 281.
Fechner, G.T., 51.
Ferrier, Dr., 32, note[12], 58, note[26].
Fiction, as producing illusion, 278, 279, 311.
Fitness. _See_ Adaptation.
Flattery, _rationale_ of, 200, 222.
Forgetfulness and illusion, 278, 279, 311.
Free-will, doctrine of, 207, 342, 356.
Future. _See_ Expectation.
G.
Galton, F., 117.
Ghosts. _See_ Hallucination.
Goethe, 116, 117, 280 and note[131].
Griesinger, W., 13, note[2], 63, note[31], 66, note[32], 115, 118,
note[62], 119, note[64], 120, note[66], 290, note[135], 327,
note[146].
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