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ugh more easily overlooked. Professor Huxley relates that he is liable to auditory though not to visual hallucinations. (See _Elementary Lessons in Physiology_, p. 267.) [65] See Baillarger, _Memoires de l'Academie Royale de Medicine_, tom. xii. p. 273, _et seq._ [66] See Baillarger, _Annales Medico-Psychologiques_, tom. vi. p. 168 _et seq._; also tom. xii. p. 273, _et seq._ Compare Griesinger, _op. cit._ In a curious work entitled _Du Demon de Socrate_ (Paris, 1856), M. Lelut seeks to prove that the philosopher's admonitory voice was an incipient auditory hallucination symptomic of a nascent stage of mental alienation. [67] This is well brought out by Dr. J. Hughlings Jackson, in the papers in _Brain_, already referred to. [68] _Friend_, vol. i. p. 248. The story is referred to by Sir W. Scott in his _Demonology and Witchcraft_. [69] See E.B. Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, ch. xi.; _cf._ Herbert Spencer, _Principles of Sociology_, ch. x. [70] For a fuller account of the different modes of dream-interpretation, see my article "Dream," in the ninth edition of the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_. [71] For a fuller account of the reaction of dreams on waking consciousness, see Paul Radestock, _Schlaf und Traum_. The subject is touched on later, under the Illusions of Memory. [72] For an account of the latest physiological hypotheses as to the proximate cause of sleep, see Radestock, _op. cit._, appendix. [73] Plutarch, Locke, and others give instances of people who never dreamt. Lessing asserted of himself that he never knew what it was to dream. [74] The error touched on here will be fully dealt with under Illusions of Memory. [75] For a very full, fair, and thoughtful discussion of this whole question, see Radestock, _op. cit._, ch. iv. [76] This may be technically expressed by saying that the liminal intensity (Schwelle) is raised during sleep. [77] See Wundt, _Physiologische Psychologie_, pp. 188-191. [78] There is, indeed, sometimes an undertone of critical reflection, which is sufficient to produce a feeling of uncertainty and bewilderment, and in very rare cases to amount to a vague consciousness that the mental experience is a dream. [79] _Observations on Man_, Part I. ch. iii, sec. 5. [80] Quoted by Radestock, _op. cit._, p. 110. [81] _Le Sommeil et les Reves_, p. 132, _et seq._ [82] _Das Leben des Traumes_, p. 369. Other instances are related by Beattie and Abercrombie. [83] _
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