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Another indication of the subliminal power at work to produce these hallucinations is their remarkable range--a…

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 176
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Another indication of the subliminal power at work to produce these hallucinations is their remarkable range--a range as wide, perhaps, as that over which therapeutic effects are obtainable by suggestion

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Another indication of the subliminal power at work to produce these hallucinations is their remarkable _range_--a range as wide, perhaps, as that over which therapeutic effects are obtainable by suggestion. The post-hypnotic hallucination may affect not sight and hearing alone (to which spontaneous hallucinations are in most cases confined), but all kinds of vaso-motor responses and organic sensations--cardiac, stomachic, and the like--which no artifice can affect in a waking person. The legendary flow of perspiration with which the flatterer sympathises with his patron's complaint of heat--_si dixeris "Æstuo," sudat_--is no exaggeration if applied to the hypnotic subject, who will often sweat and shiver at your bidding as you transplant him from the Equator to frosty Caucasus.

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