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' unconscious cerebration,' etc., etc., but I am absolutely certain about 

 what I have tried to relate. 



" In regard to the remark which I heard, ' It is a little Herman,' etc., 

 I would add that we had previously decided to call the child, if a boy, 

 Herman — my own name, by the way."* 



The hallucination sometimes carries a change cf the 

 general consciousness with it, so as to appear more like a 

 sudden lapse into a dream. The following case was given 

 me bj a man of 43, who had never anything resembling it 

 before : 



" While sitting at my desk this a. m. reading a circular of the Loyal 

 Legion a very curious thing happened to me, such as I have never ex- 

 perienced. It was perfectly real, so real that it took some minutes to 

 recover from. It seems to me like a direct intromission into some other 

 w^orld. I never had anything approaching it before save when dream- 

 ing at night. I was wide awake, of course. But this was the feeling. I 

 had only just sat down and become interested in the circular, when I 

 seemed to lose myself for a minute and then found myself in the top 

 story of a high building very white and shining and clean, with a 

 noble window immediately at the right of where I sat. Through this 

 window I looked out upon a marvellous reach of landscape entirely new. 

 I never had before such a sense of infinity in nature, such superb 

 stretches of light and color and cleanness. I know that for the space 

 of three minutes I was entirely lost, for when I began to come to, so to 

 speak, — sitting in that other world, I debated for three or four minutes 

 more as to which w-as dream and which was reality. Sitting there I got 



a faint sen.se of C [the town in which the writer was], away off 



and dim at first. Then I remember thinking ' Why, I used to live in 



C ; perhaps I am going back.' Slowly C. . . . did come back, and 



I found myself at my desk again. For a few minutes the process of 

 determining where I was was very funny. But the whole experience 

 was perfectly delightful, there was such a sense of brilliancy and 

 clearness and lightness about it. I suppose it lasted in all about seven 

 minutes or ten minutes." 



The hallucinations of fever-delirium are a mixture of 

 pseudo-hallucination, true hallucination, and illusion. 

 Those of opium, hasheesh, and belladonna resemble them 



*This case is of the class which Mr. Myers terms 'veridical.' In a 

 subsequent letter the writer informs me that his vision occurred some five 

 hours before the child was born. 



