'... like to something I remember A great while since, a long, long time ago.' Paramnesia is thus an internal hallucination, a reversed hallucination, it is true, but while so reversed, the stream of consciousness is still following the line of least resistance. It is along some such lines as these, it seems to me, that we may best attempt to explain the phenomena of paramnesia, phenomena which are of no little interest since, in earlier stages of culture, they may well have had a real influence on belief, suggesting to primitive man that he had somehow had wider experiences than he knew of, and that, as Wordsworth put it, he trailed clouds of glory behind him. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 192: It is as well to bear in mind that this dream occurred when Maury was a student, long before he began to study dreaming, and (as Egger has pointed out) was probably not written down until thirteen years later. On these grounds alone it is not entitled to serious consideration.] [Footnote 193: As Sir Samuel Wilks once remarked ('On the Nature of Dreams,' _Medical Magazine_, Feb. 1894), 'The dreamer merely forms a mental picture, and the _description_ of it he calls his dream.'] [Footnote 194: Egger, 'La Durée apparente des Rêves,' _Revue Philosophique_, Jan. 1895, pp. 41-59; Clavière, 'La Rapidité de la Pensée dans le Rêve,' _ib._ May 1897, p. 509; Piéron, 'La Rapidité des Processes Psychiques,' _ib._ Jan. 1903, pp. 89-95; Foucault, _Le Rêve_, pp. 158 _et seq.;_ Tobolowska, _Etude sur les Illusions du Temps dans les Rêves du Sommeil Normal:_ Thèse de Paris, 1900.] [Footnote 195: Thus Freud tells (_Jahrbuch für Psychoanalytische Forschungen_, vol. i. part ii. p. 387) of a man who was obsessed by the idea that he should never pass money until he had carefully cleaned it, for fear he might be infecting other people, but was quite unaware that this obsession sprang from remorse due to his own sins of sexual impurity. In such a case there is, of course, not only a crumpling of consciousness, but a definite dislocation and transference of the parts.] [Footnote 196: We also see here an interesting dissociation of the motor (speech) centre from the visual centre; it is the latter which is in this instance most closely in touch with facts.] [Footnote 197: The 'selvdrolla' dream, recorded in a previous chapter (p. 43), illustrates the same point with the difference that the crumpled up portion of consciousness never became visible in the dream.] [Footnote 198: R. L. Stevenson, 'A Chapter on Dreams,' in _Across the Plains_, 1892.]