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4. Mr. F , of Brooklyn, New York, writes : " I was studying al- 

 gebra, in which I was quite interested, and had an example to do in six 

 unknown quantities. I worked at it in the evening, and after an hour 

 or two gave it up and went to bed. That night I dreanaed the way 

 to do it was so-and-so, and arrived at the right answer. On awaken- 

 ing in the morning I tried it before I got up, and, following the way 

 suggested in the dream, got the correct answer." 



5. Mrs. B , of Kew York city, writes : " In guessing double 



acrostics, of which I am very fond, I often carry a question on in ray 

 mind without giving it any particular attention, until at last the an- 

 swer suddenly occurs to me." 



6. Mr. F , of "Westerly, Rhode Island, writes : " Have worked 



out many algebraic or geometrical problems during sleep. Have, when 

 some years ago in Worcester Academy, scanned some fifty or seventy- 

 five lines of Virgil, not yet translated, except ten or fifteen, felt 

 tired, went to bed, in sleep accurately translated all of it, and remem- 

 bered it on waking." 



7. Mrs. B , of Xew York city, writes : " In reading a difficult 



language, I read the text over without attempting to translate, getting 

 as much of the sense as this perusal may give ; then I leave it for a 

 few hours and return to it later, to find its difficulties solved — this is 

 not the case when the second follows directly on the first." 



8. Dr. S , of New York city, writes : " I remember, when in col- 

 lege, having been engaged all the evening in working on a geometrical 

 problem and going to bed with it unsolved ; having an uneasy sleep, 

 in which I dreamed of geometrical figures and of working with them ; 

 and, on awaking in the night, the solution of the problem suggested 

 itself to my mind, which solution I remembered and found correct 

 next day." 



9. Mrs. X , of Paterson, New Jersey, writes : " Have played a 



game of whist in my sleep and dej^lored the mistakes I have made 

 while awake ; gone over the whole game, replayed it in sleep, with 

 mucb better results and to my entire satisfaction." 



The following cases belong to the same class, and demonstrate 

 that perception in consciousness often occurs long after the perception 

 of the fact has been fully grasped by the individual unconsciously. 

 The discussion of the relations of consciousness to unconsciousness 

 will appear later : 



10. Mr. B (a Frenchman) writes as follows : " I once received 



a French letter from Paris, describing a race, and ending with the Eng- 

 lish words, " O how I am sorry ! " I could not decipher the words 

 when awake, but it came to me in sleep as it was written, and I made 

 it out perfectly then." 



11. Mrs. D writes as follows : " On one occasion, having writ- 

 ten a note, I received a note which conveyed to my mind the idea that 

 the writer had entirely misunderstood my communication. I fell asleep 



