The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-27

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quencS or some anx.aty and emotional
disturbance. Bono day seemed to perceive
tho figure OF q corpse about ten yards dis
Next day the oorpss disappeared, but
vas replaced ~ 9 number Of livine hsShr Cn,
he. recognized, but most Of them being
a. olesr and distinct Is NE, IN company
or In solitude. by day - well &c at night.
ct homo as well as abroad. He was per-
were mere pha ntoms, ana no adopted what
I'd Of them. After rems ming With him for
about four weeks In SILENCE the figures
began to talk, aud he distinctly heard them
times to himself. But one day, after tie
application Of leeohes to his head. al the
figures completely disappeared and be
never sfterward had any. repetition OF tho
yncanny experiepce. t
a patientof Dr. Maadsley vas 90 annoysd
dressing unplea SAINT remarks TO him that he
bought musical box In order to c1rcum-
vent them. He used to wind this up and
place II under his pillow every night when
he vent to bed, but unfortunately as soon
times wax him UP after he had Allen ssleep.
Another very ,distresaing haliuotnation
was described TO DIR. Elan In . perfectly
calm ana sensible manner BY a lady who
oonsulted him: She. ire9tenay ". -. ~, OBJ ~
making faces ct her and somettmee
throwing stones, She knew quite well
that II was not real but the sensation was
90 strong that she WAS occasionally obliged
20 60 70 her mirror before she could assu1e
This proved to be merely trandtory con-
dition. due to depressed state Of the cys-
tenn, and II passed completely away with
out attaining any more serious aspect.
Many persons who, have auditory bal
vice yerea, but they sometimes OCCUR In
combination. DR., Abercrombie records g
very queer case. A clergyman 50 years OF
age, who had been accustomed 70 rather
high living, was one day seized with vertigo
ward hat ne heard
tunes in his head. most distinctly. played.
and In accurate succession. At the same
time ne experienced q rare and remarkable
affection of vision, seeing all objects in
verted, a. photographer does In q camera
relieved TO learn that after short time
the unwelcome music ceased and external
objects resumed their normal position.
An incipient form OF hallucination shows
itself In the practise common enough among
children, and familially known q seeing
perhaps an excess OF caution, thinks the
indulgence OF this practise, a. well as OF the
habit Of day dreaming, or building castles
In the air, to be distinctly dangerous. 10
says It sometimes leads to an unshakeable
belief in the real existence OF the visions.
and quotes, az q case In point, an instance
known to him Of a man who very much
wished TO be appointed to certain ohicei
then, In day dreams, imagined that he bad
been appointed; and. at last. could not 90
persuaded that he had not been appointed,
although the Office in the meantime had
never become vacant.
DR.. Wgan, too. In his Duality Of the
Mind warns portrait painters against
cultivating q similar faculty. He cites the
case Of William Blake who began by painting
ject, during which he looked at the model
attentively for half an hour and made an
occasional sketch on the canvas. He then
passed on to :hs nsxt person. and when
he wished to continue the first portrait
tally placed him In the sitter's chair. He
could then. II appears. see the person e
distinctly a. il be were really there. He
would suspend his painting to examine the
pose, &c., and. as he said, Every time l
cast my ego on the chair / eco the man"
tably led up to the visions which became
30 celebrated and resulted in poor Blake's
confinement for thirty years in Befhlehem
ASYLUM.
Sir Isaac Ne wton. however. experimented
In this wav with the solar spectrum. and
Goethe with the forms Of flowers; without
any evil result. But perhaps the most
striking instance Of this kind Of voluntary
hallucination IL that recorded by an intimate
friend Of the actor Talma. Langlois states
that the great tragedian told him that when
ever he entered on the stage he was accus-
audience DISAPPEAR and to substitute for
them house full Of skeletons. The emotion
which these ghastv creatures Of his own
lima eination excited served, he declared,
to give additional force to his impersonation.