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"The next thing I was conscious of was meeting the lady next morning (i.e., in a dream, I suppose?) and asking…

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 160
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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"The next thing I was conscious of was meeting the lady next morning (i.e., in a dream, I suppose?) and asking her at once if she had seen me last night

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"The next thing I was conscious of was meeting the lady next morning (_i.e._, in a dream, I suppose?) and asking her at once if she had seen me last night. The reply came, 'Yes.' 'How?' I inquired. Then in words strangely clear and low, like a well audible whisper, came the answer, 'I was sitting beside you.' These words, so clear, awoke me instantly, and I felt I must have been dreaming; but on reflection I remembered what I had been 'willing' before I fell asleep, and it struck me, 'This must be a _reflex_ action from the percipient.' My watch showed 3.40 A.M. The following is what I wrote immediately in pencil, standing in my night-dress:--'As I reflected upon those clear words, they struck me as being quite _intuitive_, I mean _subjective_, and to have proceeded _from within, as my own conviction_, rather than a communication from any one else.

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