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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
90
These
appearances
of
the
living
but
absent,
whether
caused
by
some
mental
action
of
the
person
who
appears
or
not,
are,
at
least,
unconscious
on
his
part.
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But
a
few
cases
occur
in
which
a
living
person
is
said,
by
a
voluntary
exertion
of
mind,
to
have
made
himself
visible
to
a
friend
at
a
distance.
One
case
is
vouched
for
by
Baron
von
Schrenck-Notzig,
a
German
psychologist,
who
himself
made
the
experiment
with
success.
Others
are
narrated
by
Dr.
Gibotteau.
A
curious
tale
is
told
by
several
persons
as
follows:--
AN
"ASTRAL
BODY"
Mr.
Sparks
and
Mr.
Cleave,
young
men
of
twenty
and
nineteen,
were
accustomed
to
"mesmerise"
each
other
in
their
dormitory
at
Portsmouth,
where
they
were
students
of
naval
engineering.
Mr.
Sparks
simply
stared
into
Mr.
Cleave's
eyes
as
he
lay
on
his
bed
till
he
"went
off".
The
experiments
seemed
so
curious
that
witnesses
were
called,
Mr.
Darley
and
Mr.
Thurgood.
On
Friday,
15th
January,
1886,
Mr.
Cleave
determined
to
try
to
see,
when
asleep,
a
young
lady
at
Wandsworth
to
whom
he
was
in
the
habit
of
writing
every
Sunday.
He
also
intended,
if
possible,
to
make
her
see
him.
On
awaking,
he
said
that
he
had
seen
her
in
the
dining-room
of
her
house,
that
she
had
seemed
to
grow
restless,
had
looked
at
him,
and
then
had
covered
her
face
with
her
hands.
On
Monday
he
tried
again,
and
he
thought
he
had
frightened
her,
as
after
looking
at
him
for
a
few
minutes
she
fell
back
in
her
chair
in
a
kind
of
faint.
Her
little
brother
was
in
the
room
with
her
at
the
time.
On
Tuesday
next
the
young
lady
wrote,
telling
Mr.
Cleave
that
she
had
been
startled
by
seeing
him
on
Friday
evening
(this
is
an
error),
and
again
on
Monday
evening,
"much
clearer,"
when
she
nearly
fainted.
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