n her bed. While maintaining my
grasp with one hand, I induced a contraction of her arms,
and finally put her to sleep.

When again in a somnambulistic state, her first words were:
"Thanks!--pardon!"

Then she told me that she positively intended to throw
herself out of the window, but that each time she felt as if
she were "stayed from below."

"How so?"

"I do not know."

"Did you have any suspicion of my presence?"

"No! it was precisely because I believed you away, that I
proposed to carry out my design. However, it seemed to me at
times that you were near me, or behind me, and that you did
not want me to fall."

Here is another experiment still more striking. Pierre Janet,
Professor of Philosophy in the Havre Lycee, and Monsieur Gibert, a
physician, selected as a subject for their observation a certain
woman, a native of Brittany. She was fifty years old, robust, and
moderately sensitive to hypnotic influences. On October 10, 1885, they
agreed upon the following command:

To-morrow, at noon, lock the doors of your house.
W.

This suggestion Dr. Janet inscribed upon a sheet of paper, which he
carried about in his pocket, not communicating its purport to anybody.
Dr. Gibert made the suggestion by placing his forehead against the
woman's, while she was in a lethargic slumber; and for a few moments
he concentrated his mind upon the mental command he was giving.

Writes Janet concerning this incident:

On the morrow we went to the house, at fifteen minutes
before twelve, and found the entrance barricaded and the
doors locked. Inquiry proved that madame herself had closed
them. When I asked her, next day, why she had done such a
strange thing, she replied: "I felt very tired, and did not
want you to come in and put me to sleep."

She was greatly agitated at the time. She continually
wandered about the garden, and I saw her pluck a rose, and
go towards the letter-box, which was near the gate. These
actions were of no importance; but it is curious to note
that these last actions were precisely those the day before
we had thought of ordering her to perform, though we
afterwards decided upon a different suggestion, namely, that
of locking the doors. Undoubtedly his first suggestion
occupied Gibert's mind