The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-26
LECTURE BY JUDGE LIGHT
 RECALLS STRANGE EXPERIENCE
 OF MIR. AND MRS. S.R WILMOT
IN A DREAM MRS. WIIMOT VISITS HER HUS BAND IN MID OCEAN AND HER APPARI-
 TON IS SEEN BY TWO
The Case Is Classic and Is Reported By the Society Psychical Research and in Camille Flammarion s
 F'Unknown '-Mr Wimot Was Successful Manufac-
tUrer.

The lecture of psychic phenomena given by Judge John H. Light, Friday
 evening, before an audience in South | Church, has caused many people tc
 consider experiences along this line 1T
 which they have themselves shared, or
 which they have been related to them One of the classic instances of dis ! tant sight in dreams was originally re- related by three well known Bridge ] port people. They were Samuel R. Wilmot, his wife, and William J. Tait. MT. Wilmot was a we'll known manu- facturer. Mrs. Wilmot was one of the | founders of the Berean Church. All are dead. The experience here re-nar- rated was originally printed in the An- nals of the Society for Psychic Re search, published in 1891. It was re- produced by Camille Flammarion, the famous French Astronomer, in his work, ''The Unknown" from which it's present publication is taken.
 It falls into that group of border land experiences which the investiga- tors classify under distant sight in dreams" In this instance the dreamer seemed to feel herself two persons, and was seen in the second personality, not by her husband alone, but by another man as well. Both, it is needless to say. were shrewd men of the world, |substantial business men, and little likely to have "queer" notions.
 Now follows: the personal narration of MT. Wilmot:
 On Oct. 3, 1863, I left Liverpool for New York, on Board of the Steamer City of Limerick of the 1nman Line, commanded by Captain Jones. on the evening of the second day, after having passed Kinsale Head. we en- countered a great storm. which lasted g days. During this time we saw neither sun, nor stars, nor did we sight any vessel. The bulwarks were stove in, h fhn Uin the faN1nQSt and one of the anchors broke loose and did great deal of harm before 1t could be slowed away again. Several pig sails, though close reefed. were carried away, and their yards were broken.
 During the night which succeeded the eighth day of the storm, the gale was little less violent, and for the first time since we left port was able to get a little refreshing sleep. To- wards morning I dreamed that I saw riiy wife, whom had left in the United States. She came to the door of my state room in her night dress. On the threshold she seemed to perceive that I was not alone; she hesitated little and then came up to me, stopped ana kissed me, and after having caressed me a few moments she quietly with drew.
 ssWhen I awoke I was surprised to observe my roommate, whose berth was over mine, though I could not see him very distinctly, for our state room was in the Stern or The vessel SitLil6 up, leaning on his elbow and looking at me fixedly You are a lucky fellow, he said at last, to have lady come to visit you like that! I asked him to explain himself. At first he would moi. but at last he told me what he had seen, for he was quite awake and sitting up in his berth. It correspond ed exactly with what had seen in my dream.
 "The name of my room-mate was William l. Tait; he was not a man likely to be guilty of a joke. He was on the contrary a very grave ana re- ligious man, whose word l cannot doubt.
 .aThe day after landed. I took the train to Watertown. where my wife and children were living. As soon as we were alone her first question was: Did you receive my visit week ago on Tuesday, "A visit from you. said Why. we were a thousand miles at sea- T know she said, but it seems