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.
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