The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1905-04-08
living PIcruaEs N rAa ErE.
ceiOrsd limoges that Appear ON I.yinu
Down After an Bxcitinw Day.

ceiOrsd limoges that Appear ON I.yinn
Down Aftur an Bxcitinw Day.
There are many who viii not read.
lily understand what u meant BY pic
lures In the eye. unless 1t be the lnlag.
nation. or minds eye" Of Hamlet,
for tho power Of seeing them Is not
conferred on all alike. Even those
who have seen them from time to
/ time. and probably given them little
heed. may not feel altogether sure
about the matter without a word OF
explanation.
Lying In bed. after a firing or ex-
citing day, with your eyes closed, ana
about to fall asleep. have you never
seen, apparently In the eyeball, spots
and streaks OF colored light. Changing
their forms and shifting their places7
Have you never watched them pass
ing into complicated patterns. like
those Of the kaleidoscope. or into pref.
ty landscapes quite unknown to YOU.
OF into strange faces, now and again
very beautiful or angelic, but often as
ugly and hideous as gOblins from the
Internal regions, or, happy, into scenes
OF action reminding you OF the
drama. but such as you never saw In
real life or upon any stagef These
pictures are more alive than the ''uy-
Ing pictures" OF the music halls.
They have the hues OF life or art, and
rival the quick change artist in their
Frotean transformations. The ami
ntatograph that can initiate their
ceaseless evolution. without a hitch or
tremOr. viii be a novelty aud make
the fortune of It's inventor.
What are theyl II Is one OF the
mysteries OF that marvellous, nav.
miraculous, organ. the brain. We
must distinguish them from other
mysteries OF the 'bOrierlnnd" which
lies between the adjoining states OF
wideawake and sound asleep.
They are not the images Of a re.erle
or day dream Whether we recall
the past In our waking hours, or In, /
vent new incidents like a novelist, we
can govern them to some extent. ami
are quite aware Of their fancIful or
mental character. They are not au
hallucination. In the proper sense OF
the term. We feel they are sub
teetive, or within us: we suppose
them in the eye itself. whereas we
believe an halluclnatiou IL objective.
or without Us. An apparition or spec
ter that we take for reality Il al
The ghost OF HamIet's
father. witnessed by several persons.
aud the spook OF his distant brother
seen by Lord Broughan,. were prob
ably Authorizations OF a "tclepathlc
order. The picture OF AIInais, whesO
q man starts up and sees a luminous
lady at the foot OF his bed, Is a case
of hallucination- The dream imARss
of the undergraduates. who dreamed
that he was chased BY a green figure,
and awaking. saw Il In his room, was
llso an hallucination.
Pictures in the eye are more akin |
10 what are called after images" A II
gentleman IA doctor, n we are not I
nistAkenl. after a iatfEuing day, was I
By the sight OF q beefstsak Z
Tor his dinner. a. he very well might.
'ut seemingly the steak made q deep 7
impression on his mind or his dlEes- }
ion, for while he was browsing, with :
lis eyes closed, after eating Il. he Jaw :
{ again as wildly as before, and on {
Topping asleep he saw Il a third time I
n hts dream. Il was doubtless a sub {
Itantial steak. not a ghost. and yet II =
launted him. {
There Is, OF course, more than ono
heory Of these living pictures In tbs 5
ys. or, As they are called In science. &
images" one il that !
hey are formed on the retina of the I
ye and confined 10 It. Another Ia Z
hat they are purely mental and y
ormed IN the corteX. or bark, so 20 n
peak. OF the CeFebrum. As often
appens, the truth appears TO tie In u
OF both views Recent 3D. u
eFvatiOns Of NJ. Yves Dslaga have u
ut the question to experimental u
roof. When we look at n bright v
Ody, for example. the sun, and shut u
ur eyes, we see a cOIOred spot OF
ght, and II we move the eye up or
own, to right or left, the spot moves c,
nth It. The spot. in fact. IL left BY ~
he image Of the sun upon the retina. G.
nd therefore moves with II. Now. II II
he hypnogogic images ars on the 70
stina, they also will move with the h
ye, and this IL what NJ Delags has 81
Dund. Nevertheless. the brain also W
omes into play In forming them, ~