[Footnote 250: Hans Gross, the distinguished criminologist, refers (_Kriminalpsychologie_, p. 672) to two cases of children who brought criminal charges which were apparently based on dreams. Gross mentions that this may often be suspected when the child says nothing at the time, and shows no excitement or depression until a day or two after the date of the alleged event. For confusion of dream with reality, see also Gross, _Gesammelte Kriminalistische Aufsätze_, vol. ii. p. 174.] [Footnote 251: Thus Rachilde (Mme. Vallette) writes that as a young girl her dreams were so vivid that 'I would often ask myself if I had not an existence in two forms: my waking personality and my dreaming personality. Sometimes I was deceived and imagined that my real life was dreams.' She instinctively began to write at the age of twelve, and it was by completing her dreams that she became a novelist (Chabaneix, _Le Subconscient_, p. 49). George Sand's early day-dreams, of which she gives so interesting an account (_Histoire de ma Vie_, part III. ch. viii), developed around the central figure of Corambé, first seen in a real dream. Corambé was, at the same time, a divine being, to whom she erected an altar. So that of the child it may be said, as Lucretius said of primitive man, that the gods first appear in dreams.] [Footnote 252: 'In sleep,' says Sully (_Fortnightly Review_, March 1893), 'we have a reversion to a more primitive type of experience.' 'Dreaming,' says Jastrow (_The Subconscious_, p. 219), 'may be viewed as a reversion to a more primitive type of thought.'] [Footnote 253: This tendency is notably represented by Durkheim ('Origines de la Pensée Religieuse,' _Revue Philosophique_, January 1909) and Crawley (_The Idea of the Soul_, 1909).] [Footnote 254: Hill Tout, _Journal_, Anthropological Institute, January-June 1905, p. 143; Sidney Hartland, in his presidential address to the Anthropological Section of the British Association, in 1906, emphasised the significance of dreams in Shamanism, and Sir Everard im Thurn, in his _Among the Indians of Guiana_, shows how practically real are dreams to the savage mind.] [Footnote 255: See, _e. g_., as regards the American Indians, Thornton Parker in the _Open Court_, May 1901.] [Footnote 256: _Leviathan_, part I. ch. ii.]