ered was that of riding furiously through the air.

The experiment was repeated on other subjects, in all cases with the
same result. Only one knew that the music was the "Ride of Walkure." "To
him it always expressed the pictured wild ride of the daughters of
Wotan, the subject taking part in the ride." It was noticeable in each
case that the same music played to them in the waking state produced no
special impression. Here is incontestable evidence that in the hypnotic
state the perception of the special senses is enormously heightened.

A slow movement was tried (the Valhalla motif). At first it seemed to
produce the opposite effect, for the pulse was lowered. Later it rose to
a rate double the normal, and the tension was diminished. The impression
described by the subject afterward was a feeling of "lofty grandeur and
calmness." A mountain climbing experience of years before was recalled,
and the subject seemed to contemplate a landscape of "lofty grandeur." A
different sort of music was played (the intense and ghastly scene in
which Brunhilde appears to summon Sigmund to Valhalla). Immediately a
marked change took place in the pulse. It became slow and irregular, and
very small. The respiration decreased almost to gasping, the face grew
pale, and a cold perspiration broke out.

Readers who are especially interested in this subject will find
descriptions of many other interesting experiments in the same article.

Dr. Cocke describes a peculiar trick he played upon the sight of a
subject. Says he: "I once hypnotized a man and made him read all of his
a's as w's, his u's as v's, and his b's as x's. I added suggestion after
suggestion so rapidly that it would have been impossible for him to have
remembered simply what I said and call the letters as I directed.
Stimulation was, in this case impossible, as I made him read fifteen or
twenty pages, he calling the letters as suggested each time they
occurred."

The extraordinary heightening of the sense perceptions has an important
bearing on the question of spiritualism and clairvoyance. If the powers
of the mind are so enormously increased, all that is required of a very
sensitive and easily hypnotized person is to hypnotize him or herself,
when he will be able to read thoughts and remember or perceive facts
hidden to the ordinary perception. In this connection the reader is
referred to the confession of Mrs. Piper, the famous medium of the
American branch of the Psyc