_The Dream as Hallucination_:--Results of direct central stimulation
151-153; indirect central stimulation and association, 153-155.
_The Form and Structure of Dreams_:--The incoherence of Dreams explained,
156-161; coherence and unity of Dream as effected (a) by
coalescence and transformation of images, 161-163; (b) by aground-tone
of feeling, 164-168; (c) by the play of associative dispositions,
168-172; (d) by the activities of selective attention stimulated by
the rational impulse to connect and to arrange, 172-176; examples
of Dreams, 176-179; limits of intelligence and rational activity in
Dreams, 180-182; Dreaming and mental disease, 182, 183; After-dreams
and Apparitions, 183-185.
NOTE.--The Hypnotic Condition, 185-188.
CHAPTER VIII.
ILLUSIONS OF INTROSPECTION.
Illusions of Introspection defined, 189-192; question of the possibility
of illusory Introspection, 192-194; incomplete grasp of internal
feelings as such, 194-196; misobservation of internal feelings: Passive
Illusions, 196-199; Active Illusions, 199-202; malobservation of
subjective states, 202-205; Illusory Introspection in psychology and
philosophy, 205-208; value of the Introspective method, 208-211.
CHAPTER IX.
OTHER QUASI-PRESENTATIVE ILLUSIONS: ERRORS OF INSIGHT.
Emotion and Perception, 212; AEsthetic Intuition, 213; Subjective
Impressions of beauty misinterpreted, 213-216; analogous Emotional
Intuitions, 216, 217; Insight, its nature, 217-220; Passive Illusions
of Insight, 220-222; Active Illusions of Insight: projection of
individual feelings, 222-224; the poetic transformation of nature,
224-226; special predispositions as falsifying Insight, 226-228;
value of faculty of Insight, 228-230.
CHAPTER X.
ILLUSIONS OF MEMORY.
Vulgar confidence in Memory, 231-233; definition of Memory, 233-235;
Psychology of Memory, 235-237; Physiology of Memory, 237, 238;
Memory as localization in the past, 238-241; Illusions of Memory
classified, 241-245.
(1) _Illusions of Time-Perspective_:--
(a) Definite Localization of events: constant errors in retrospective
estimate of time, 245-249; varying errors: estimate of duration
during a period, 249-251; variations in retrospective estimate of
duration, 251-256.
(b) Indefinite Localization: effect of vividness of mnemonic image
on the apparent distance of events, 256-258; isolated public events,
258, 259; active element in errors of Localization, 259-261.
(2) _Distortions of Memory_:--Transformation of past through
forgetfulness, 261-264; confusion of distinct recollections, 264-266;
Active Illusion: influence of present imaginative activity, 266-269;
exaggeration in recollections of remote experiences, 269, 270; action of
present feeling in transforming past, 270, 271.
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