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sitting position). Muscular incoordination is so considerable that it 

 is very difficult to use a pen, but still easy to write with a pencil. 



"I find that it is easily possible to see the visions when lying down 

 in a dark room with open eyes. (Weir Mitchell could not do this.) 

 Sometimes the vision seems to be of a vast hollow vessel into the 

 polished interior of which one gazes while the hue rapidly changes on 

 its mother-of-pearl surface. The objects seen are very often extremely 

 definite; the remarkable point is that they are always novel. There has 

 been all along apparent hypersesthesia to all sensory impressions. 



"9:10. I had to break off as I cannot write for long at a time. The 

 visions continue as brilliantly as ever: I think I see them better in a 

 room lighted by fire than in a dark room. I have seen thick glorious 

 fields of jewels which spring into forms like flowers beneath my view 

 and then seem to turn into gorgeous butterfly-like forms. When I 

 speak my voice seems strange to me and certainly sounds hoarse. 



"As I write (by electric light) vague thin color washes seem to lie 

 on the paper, especially a golden yellow, and even the pencil seems to 

 make somewhat golden-tinged marks. My hands seen in indirect vision 

 seem strange, bronzed, scaled, flushed with red. Except for slight 

 nausea I am feeling well, my head perfectly well, though when watch- 

 ing the visions I once noticed slight right frontal pain. The chief 

 inconvenience is decidedly the motor incoordination. It involves 

 inability to fix attention long; but otherwise intellect is perfectly clear. 



"9 :40. [Written with pen.] I am now going to bed. Visions con- 

 tinue; I feel well, except for slight nausea when I move and the motor 

 weakness. [What follows was written on the next morning.'] Before 

 going to bed I drank some hot water with a little wine in it, but took 

 nothing to eat. On undressing I was struck by the red, scaly, bronzed 

 or pigmented appearance of my feet, hands and limbs when I was not 

 directly looking at them. After going to bed the nausea entirely dis- 

 appeared, not to reappear, and except for thoracic oppression and 

 occasional sighing there was no discomfort. But there was not the 

 slightest drowsiness. I think, however, that the visions might easily 

 have blended into dream visions but that I was kept awake by a certain 

 consciousness of faintness and by auditory hypersesthesia. I was 

 keenly receptive — as I had been all along — to sounds, and whenever I 

 seemed about to fall asleep I was startled either by the exaggerated 

 reverberation in my head of some distant street sound or else by the 

 mental. image (not hallucination) of a loud sound. At a later stage 

 there was some ringing in the ear. There were also some slight twitch- 

 ings of the larger muscles of the limbs. Before going to bed I had 

 ascertained that there was marked exaggeration of the knee-jerk, and 

 the pupils were dilated. I felt hot ; the skin was dry, the kidneys active. 



"Meanwhile the visions continued with but little diminution of 



