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Sometimes a percipient has stated that he heard the name of the thing thought of; as, for instance, in a case…

Date of account: Published 1894
Source: Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy
Reference: Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy · selected passage 24
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Sometimes a percipient has stated that he heard the name of the thing thought of; as, for instance, in a case recorded in Chapter V., where the percipient "heard" the word gloves before "seeing" a vision of them

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Sometimes a percipient has stated that he heard the name of the thing thought of; as, for instance, in a case recorded in Chapter V., where the percipient "heard" the word _gloves_ before "seeing" a vision of them. But such cases appear to be rare. Experiments with a view to test the transmission of _actual_ sounds could of course only be carried out under special conditions, of which one would be the separation of the agent from the percipient by a considerable intervening space--and this condition is, of itself, found to interfere with success. Some evidence, indeed, of a quasi-experimental character for the transference of musical sounds at a distance will be given in a later chapter (Chapter V., No. 33).

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