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are always far stronger than when we are awake : we always 

 conceive with an intensity equal to sensation, an impossibility 

 in the waking state, unless under extraordinary excitement. 

 In sleep-waking, the conceptions have been so strong that an 

 archbishop of Bordeaux declares of a young man, whose case will 

 soon be related, that, dreaming he had just emerged from a stream, 

 he shivered, his teeth chattered, he begged for brandy, and, on 

 receiving water instead, again asked for brandy, took a glass of 

 strong liquor, felt refreshed, and without waking fell into a perfect 

 sleep. In sleep, things are sometimes remembered and spoken 

 of, which had been forgotten : and we sometimes dream of our 

 previous dreams, forgotten perhaps in our waking state : if 

 we have remembered them when awake as dreams, we may 

 dream of them as dreams, and sometimes, without having 

 awakened after a dream, we dream on, dreaming again that 

 the first was really a dream. y Another instance of increased 



that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in 

 Purchas's Pilgrimage : c Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, 

 and a stately garden thereunto : and thus ten miles of fertile ground were 

 enclosed with a wall.' The author continued for about three hours in a pro- 

 found sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most 

 vivid confidence that he could not have composed less than from two to three 

 hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images 

 rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent 

 expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awaking he 

 appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and talcing his 

 pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here 

 preserved. At this moment, he was unfortunately called out by a person on 

 business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to 

 his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that, though he still 

 retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, 

 yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the 

 rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a 

 stone had been cast, but, alas ! without the after restoration of the latter." 



" Henricus ab Heer mentions the case of a student at a German University, 

 who having been very intent on the composition of some verses, which he could 

 not complete to his satisfaction, rose in his sleep, and, opening his desk, sat 

 down with great earnestness to renew his attempt. At length, having succeeded, 

 he returned, went to bed, after reciting his composition aloud and setting his 

 papers in order as before." (Jm revelata, vol. i. p. 310.) " See what Holl- 

 man has related of himself in this particular. Pneumotolog. Psycholog. et Theol. 

 Natur. Getting. 177O. 8vo. p. 196." 



y Dr. Macnish, 1. c. p. 87. 



