The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12


gay subliminal parsonage. That's why |
took the cigarette. Didn she make a fuss!'
Several days before in that same place DR..
Prince had given x a cigarette to see
what she would do with it. She smoked 1t,
but very clumsily.
An embarrassing situation into which Miss
X got herself cher No. / self without the
connivance of the selfish X was a case OF
absent mindedness. In the globe she saw
Prof. u Zone of the professors in the insti-
tuton) walking nervOusly up and down in
one of the rooms of the place. He sat down
in a chair and put one foot over his knee.
Then he hastily removed that and frowned.
He went to desk and began to write. but
soon became very uneasy and ran his hands
expression, he rushed out of the room. This
performance Miss X couldn't explain at all.
She remembered having seen Prof. u in the
room, and, as far as she could recollect, she
had been sitting there alone thinking. She
did not remember, however that he was
nervous or did any Of the things that she
had seen him do in the globe. But X re-
membered all about it and explained 1t with
glee.
UNCONSCIOUS IMITATION.
''She' Miss X) was sitting there when
Professor y came in. She fell into a brown
study looking at him. and wherever he
went she followed him with her eyes. 1t
made him so nervous! Pretty soon he sat
down and crossed his leg over his kne She
crossed her leg over her knee He began
to write at the desk. She went through
the motions of writing Every time he
dipped his pen she reached forward and
made the same motions He jumped up ana
ran his fingers through his hair, and she
did the same thing. Then he ran away.
This account of unconscious imitation was
afterward verified by Professor u, who
added that it had driven him to the verge
of nervous insanity.
At another time Miss x saw in the globe
a girl in a nightgown in a room with
DreSentiV TecOR-
niZed as herself. She took an fnkstand
from the table craWled out of the window
upon the Ledge, and threw the lnkstand INTO
the street. She became very dizzy. While
describing this Miss X was obliged TO stop
twice and remove her gaze from the CLONE
because of overpoWering dizziness. Con-
tinuing, she saw herself return and get into
bed. Then q girl Miss l., came in and put
a plaster on her chest. Try as she would
to remember such an incident Miss could
recollect nothing but the room and Miss
l.. The room was in house on Columbus
avenue Boston, where she had been stay
ing. 1t remained for y 3 as usual, TO fur-
nsh the explanation.
THAT was when She (Miss X was III,
said she. She was delirious, and thought
she was on the seashore and she climbed
out on the cliff The inkstand she thought
was a stone which she was going to throw
into the sea. She spilled some Ink into her
Ink stains were found in her shoes. Miss
L. who had cared for Miss X, corroborated
the account of the delirium and said that
the patient imagined herself on the sea-
shore. The particular interest of this case
to medical men lies in the fact that it shows
delirium to extend only to the normal self;
that under the raving and Authorizations OF
the delirious personality is a deeper person.
atty, lacking controlling power. but calmly
and correctly cognizant in all its senses.
Dr. Prince then cited some visions which
could not be established as being correct. A
TeCurrent one showed old woman walk
ing up a steep and stony street, fianked by
curious-lOoking houses, not like any houses
in this country. A hOrseman coming along
rode the old woman down. Here Miss X.
turned her face from the globe. Several
times she has tried to get some clew to this
vision, but is unable to. She is certain that
she has never been in such a street as the
one seen, and almost certain that 1t is
foreign street Miss X. has never been
abroad. Neither X nor X 8 knew OF any
such occurrence. AS it is certain that q
young woman witnessing such an accident
would not forget it. DR.. Prince regards this
a case where an occurrence read in a
book or heard of and then lost from MEM
Org is bodied forth in the crystal globe from
the subconscious part of the brain.
DIR. Prince suggests that such historic
visions as those of Joan of Arc and Savona-
roa were of this order. Cases of lunacy,
he said might be found to be q permanent
substitution of the subnormal consciousness
with their halIucinations Of the past for the
M al self