As a general rule (though with numerous exceptions), the events of ordinary life are remembered in the trance,…
- Date of account
- Published 1903
- Source
- Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
- Reference
- Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death · selected passage 142
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
As a general rule (though with numerous exceptions), the events of ordinary life are remembered in the trance, while the trance events are forgotten on waking, but tend to recur to the memory on rehypnotisation
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyAs a general rule (though with numerous exceptions), the events of ordinary life are remembered in the trance, while the trance events are forgotten on waking, but tend to recur to the memory on rehypnotisation. But the most interesting part of his observations consisted in showing alternations of memory in the alert and deep stages of the trance itself;--the ideas impressed in the one sort of state being almost always forgotten in the other, and as invariably again remembered when the former state recurs. (_Proceedings_ S.P.R. vol. ii., pp. 61 _et seq._ [523 A].) On experimenting further, he met with a stage in which there was a distinct third train of memory, independent of the others;--and this, of course, suggests a further doubt as to there being any fixed number of stages in the trance. The later experiments of Mrs.
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Modern context
Contextual commentary · mention onlyThe passage can support a history of claims and recurring descriptions. It does not establish a paranormal mechanism, and competing psychological, social and physical explanations remain relevant.
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