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tical life. We awake with the recollection of having had a very- 

 interesting dream but not one element in it can we recall. Per- 

 haps on the following night it is continued and some associa- 

 tional element recalls the whole senseless panorama. As already 

 remarked the feelings ordinarily are the starting point or centre 

 of crystallization in dreams. Often, too, the feeling is appar- 

 ently presented without any concrete basis and a variety of en- 

 tirely unsuited elements are associated with the feeling. Thus 

 a great feeling of satisfaction and amusement was associated in 

 my mind with a pun which on awaking proved to consist in the 

 employment of the words " fiend-in^/z^niate " instead of "fiend- 

 incarnate, " some special witicism being supposed to lie in the 

 italicised letters. Again, dreaming that I was called upon to 

 examine the exercises of a class in logic and feeling distressed 

 by my long neglect of the subject and fearful of not compre- 

 hending the purport of the topics, I was greatly relieved to 

 learn that a syllogism ran "two things separately equal to the 

 same thing are equal to each other" with which I found myself 

 sufficiently familiar. 



Ilhistratio7is. External stimuli may be exalted or over- 

 estimated, (i) During a period of half slumber scarcely to be 

 distinguished from sleep one becomes conscious of being annoyed 

 by the barking of a dog. By a strong effort one rouses suffi- 

 ciently to discover that the sound is the ticking of the clock 

 which is usually not heard at all. 



(2) Just as one is falling asleep he becomes conscious of 

 standing with others before an open grate which produces a 

 comfortable roar. A feeling of draft is associated. On rousing 

 again the roar is identified with the sound of traffic on a distant 

 street. Chills about the shoulder supply the draft and the com- 

 fortable warmth which is just beginning to creep over one sup- 

 plies the heat of the fire. 



