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way, and built up by the gradual process of assorting and assimilating 

 the stimuli as they come in, and naturalizing them to become a part of 

 the self. The other is the new immigrant idea suddenly introduced by 

 the operator, which is not assimilated nor made a part of the self, and 

 cannot be except upon the disintegration or inhibition of some already 

 there. In the waking state a new idea thus introduced takes time to be- 

 come a part of the self by the re-arrangement or subversion of those 

 already there that are inconsistent with it, or if it is not strong enough 

 to do that, it is itself cast out as a delusion. But in the alert hypnotic 

 state this process of assimilation is or may be suspended as to a delu- 

 sory idea, and yet the idea may have differentiated its organ and may 

 remain as an irreconcilable foreign person. In the deeper state, when 

 the delusion is strong enough to monopolize the whole attention, all the 

 normal organs of the waking self that are contradictory to it are inhib- 

 ited, deprived of their blood supply, and put to sleep. The strange de- 

 lusory organ, which is no part of the ordinary self, is alone left to run 

 the whole machine. And since there is no co-ordination between this 

 organ and the rest, when they wake up again the memory of this strange 

 organ cannot be recalled. The different degrees in hypnotism, then, re- 

 late to details of the inhibition of blood from the normal cells. This is 

 no doubt accomplished through the action of the nerves upon the blood- 

 vessels, the nervous action originating from the original impact upon the 

 external sense organs, and being thence propagated inward to the brain. 

 It appears to act in two complementary modes, one in the expansion of 

 certain blood-vessels, admitting the liberation of material for the con- 

 struction of the new organ or organs ; the other, in the contraction of 

 other blood-vessels, causing the cutting off of the supply to organs al- 

 ready there, and reducing their activity. 



The impressions made upon the subject when in the deep state, 

 although not connected with the memories of his waking hours, never- 

 theless possess their own independent control over his movements when- 

 ever their activities relate to muscular motion. Commands given the 

 subject when asleep, to be performed when he wakes up, are certainly re- 

 membered by the new organs concerned; that is, those differentiated by 

 the stimulus of the command; and they go on and relieve the nervous 

 tension in which they are left, by setting off the muscles in the per- 

 formance of the action commanded, often to the surprise of the other 

 fellow, the normal one, who cannot account for his action, and never 

 imagines it is not his. See case mentioned on page 809. Such cases 

 show the deceitfulness of our subjective notion of having a free will. 

 The new person created in the brain of the subject in deep hypnotism 

 by stimulations from an operator, is just exactly as real a person as 

 the original normal one, or first person, who was created by miscel- 



