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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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Perhaps
nothing,
not
even
a
ghost,
is
so
staggering
to
the
powers
of
belief
as
a
well-authenticated
dream
which
strikes
the
bull's
eye
of
facts
not
known
to
the
dreamer
nor
capable
of
being
guessed
by
him.
If
the
events
beheld
in
the
dream
are
far
away
in
space,
or
are
remote
in
time
past,
the
puzzle
is
difficult
enough.
But
if
the
events
are
still
in
the
future,
perhaps
no
kind
of
explanation
except
a
mere
"fluke"
can
even
be
suggested.
Say
that
I
dream
of
an
event
occurring
at
a
distance,
and
that
I
record
or
act
on
my
dream
before
it
is
corroborated.
Suppose,
too,
that
the
event
is
not
one
which
could
be
guessed,
like
the
death
of
an
invalid
or
the
result
of
a
race
or
of
an
election.
This
would
be
odd
enough,
but
the
facts
of
which
I
dreamed
must
have
been
present
in
the
minds
of
living
people.
Now,
if
there
is
such
a
thing
as
"mental
telegraphy"
or
"telepathy,"
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my
mind,
in
dream,
may
have
"tapped"
the
minds
of
the
people
who
knew
the
facts.
We
may
not
believe
in
"mental
telegraphy,"
but
we
can
imagine
it
as
one
of
the
unknown
possibilities
of
nature.
Again,
if
I
dream
of
an
unchronicled
event
in
the
past,
and
if
a
letter
of
some
historical
person
is
later
discovered
which
confirms
the
accuracy
of
my
dream,
we
can
at
least
conceive
(though
we
need
not
believe)
that
the
intelligence
was
telegraphed
to
my
dreaming
mind
from
the
mind
of
a
dead
actor
in,
or
witness
of
the
historical
scene,
for
the
facts
are
unknown
to
living
man.
But
even
these
wild
guesses
cannot
cover
a
dream
which
correctly
reveals
events
of
the
future;
events
necessarily
not
known
to
any
finite
mind
of
the
living
or
of
the
dead,
and
too
full
of
detail
for
an
explanation
by
aid
of
chance
coincidence.
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