[Footnote 60: The ease with which musical sounds can be applied during
sleep and the beneficial results on emotional tone have suggested their
therapeutic use. Leonard Corning ('The Use of Musical Vibrations before
and during Sleep,' _Medical Record_, 21st January 1899) is regarded as the
pioneer in this field.]
[Footnote 61: Ch. Ruths, _Experimental-Untersuchungen über Musikphantome_,
1898.]
[Footnote 62: Dauriac, 'Des Images Suggérées par l'Audition Musicale,'
_Revue Philosophique_, November 1902.]
[Footnote 63: De Rochas has described and reproduced the gestures and
dances of his hypnotised subject, Lina, under the influence of music.
Ribot (_L'Imagination Créatrice_, pp. 177 _et seq._, 291 _et seq._) has
discussed the imagery suggested by music and points out that it is most
pronounced in non-musical subjects. Fatigue and over-excitement are
predisposing conditions in the production of this imagery, as is shown by
MacDougall (_Psychological Review_, September 1898) in his own experience.]
[Footnote 64: One is tempted to think that this lightning may have been a
symbolistic transformation of lancinating neuralgic pains, magnified, as
sensations are apt to be, in sleep.]
[Footnote 65: In some experiments by Prof. W. S. Monroe on twenty women
students at Westfield Normal School a crushed clove was placed on the
tongue for ten successive nights on going to bed. Of 254 dreams reported
as following there were seventeen taste dreams and eight smell dreams, and
three of these dreams actually involved cloves. The clove also influenced
dreams of other classes; thus, as a result of the burning sensation
in the mouth, one dreamer imagined that the house was on fire (W. S.
Monroe, 'A Study of Taste Dreams,' _American Journal of Psychology_,
January 1899). It has indeed been found, by Meunier, specially easy to
apply olfactory stimuli during sleep and so improve the emotional tone
(R. Meunier, 'A Propos d'onirothérapie,' _Archives de Neurologie_, March
1910). Meunier found that in his own case tuberose always called out
agreeable dreams full of detail, though in another subject the dreams were
always unpleasant. In hysterical subjects essence of geranium provoked
various agreeable dreams followed by a pleasant emotional tone during the
following day.]
[Footnote 66: Titchener ('Taste Dreams,' _American Journal of Psychology_,
January 1895) records taste dreams by auto-suggestion, and Ribot
(_Psychology of the Emotions_, p. 142) thinks there can be no doubt dreams
of both taste and smell can occur without objective source.]
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