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ghostly delight of imponderability. Neither can 

 it serve to explain other dream-experiences of 

 levitation which do not begin with the sensation 

 of leaping or falling, and are seldom of a pleas- 

 urable kind. For example, it sometimes happens 

 during nightmare that the dreamer, deprived of 

 all power to move or speak, actually feels his 

 body lifted into the air and floated away by the 

 force of the horror within him. Again, there are 

 dreams in which the dreamer has no physical 

 being. I have thus found myself without any 

 body, a viewless and voiceless phantom, hov- 

 ering upon a mountain-road in twilight time, and 

 trying to frighten lonely folk by making small 

 moaning noises. The sensation was of moving 

 through the air by mere act of will : there was 

 no touching of surfaces ; and I seemed to glide 

 always about a foot above the road. 



Could the feeling of dream-flight be partly 

 interpreted by organic memory of conditions of 

 life more ancient than man, life weighty, and 

 winged, and flying heavily, a little above the 

 ground ? 



Or might we suppose that some all-permeating 

 Over-Soul, dormant in other time, wakens with- 



