336 C. S. YOAKUM 



For the first time, I now seemed aware of the setting of the 

 situation in which I had just reacted as described. The moon's 

 rays were shining through the window W, and lighted up an 

 area of the wall and a few inches of the floor back of the spot 

 marked B. The lighted area was about three feet wide and 

 extended up two feet on the dark gray wall. In the corner of 

 this illuminated area was a small, round gas stove and a few 

 strands of insulated wire loosely coiled. The moon's rays did 

 not reach the doorway by which I was attempting to pass out. 

 The point reached, B, is approximately five feet from that one 

 usually passed over in going out of the room by daylight. 



Up to the point of the second change in pathway in order to 

 avoid the wall and to go out by the door, the reactions of the 

 cow and of myself are similar. Objectively the incidents may 

 be described in identical terms and no one can seriously urge 

 that consciousness took any prominent part in either subject's 

 behavior. In the two cases, we have positive reactions whose 

 settings are strikingly similar; and in the cow's head jerking to 

 the left and in my own head jerking back, we can see the typical 

 withdrawal reaction. Anecdotes are plentiful of horses and 

 cows refusing to be driven from the lighted areas around burning 

 barns, etc., but I can at present recall no case of so direct a 

 human response to lighted areas, uncomplicated by implications 

 of inner purpose. 



The explanations suggested above for the cow's behavior ap- 

 pear accurate and complete here also. 



After making the withdrawal reaction of the second trip, my 

 consciousness of the situation included a distinct and clear revival 

 experience accompanied by feelings of astonishment and excite- 

 ment. My behavior now differed materially from the first form. 

 I stopped, looked at the lighted area, turned around toward the 

 window, and left the room slowly. No one who has made the 

 two trips or had seen them made could avoid the conclusion that 

 a distinct change in behavior had taken place. I now knew 

 definitely that I had taken the wrong path on the first return 

 trip also. (I fear the behaviorist will not read much further.) 

 But the shift from the pathway toward the lighted area to that 

 through the doorway the first time must have taken place quite 

 smoothly for I can find no memorial evidence and no hints 

 indicating perseverative tendencies in the recollections of the 

 interval between the two trips. Nevertheless, after the second 



