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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
64
All
these
kinds
of
things,
in
fact,
are
common
in
our
visions
between
sleeping
and
waking
(illusions
hypnagogiques).
The
singularity
is
that
they
are
seen
by
people
wide
awake
in
glass
balls
and
so
forth.
Usually
the
seer
is
a
person
whose
ordinary
"mental
imagery"
is
particularly
vivid.
But
every
"visualiser"
is
not
a
crystal
seer.
A
novelist
of
my
acquaintance
can
"visualise"
so
well
that,
having
forgotten
an
address
and
lost
the
letter
on
which
it
was
written,
he
called
up
a
mental
picture
of
the
letter,
and
so
discovered
the
address.
But
this
very
popular
writer
can
see
no
visions
in
a
crystal
ball.
Another
very
popular
novelist
can
see
them;
little
dramas
are
acted
out
in
the
ball
for
his
edification.
{58}
These
things
are
as
unfamiliar
to
men
of
science
as
Mr.
Galton
found
ordinary
mental
imagery,
pictures
in
memory,
to
be.
Psychology
may
or
may
not
include
them
in
her
province;
they
may
or
may
not
come
to
be
studied
as
ordinary
dreams
are
studied.
But,
like
dreams,
these
crystal
visions
enter
the
domain
of
the
ghostly
only
when
they
are
veracious,
and
contribute
information
previously
unknown
as
to
past,
present
or
future.
There
are
plenty
of
stories
to
this
effect.
To
begin
with
an
easy,
or
comparatively
easy,
exercise
in
belief.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
