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I saw myself dressed in weeds. — M. A. M. In answer to inquiries, she says that she dreams a great deal, but that her dreams are almost always of a pleasant nature. I never had any dream which was as vivid and the remembrance of which lasted as did that one. My pillow was quite wet with the tears I had shed. The following example — from Mrs. Willmore, of 33, Castellain Road, Maida Hill, W. — is curiously similar, but depends on a single memory. 1884. (92) The dream you ask me to narrate took place in 1856, at Neuilly, near Paris. I had a vivid impression that I was dying, and awoke with a start to hear my husband sobbing so painfully that I aroused him to ask what was the matter, upon which he said that he had dreamt that I was just on the point of dying. These two dreams must have occurred to both of us simultaneously, and seem to me to be a curious instance of thought-transference. I may add that there was such great sympathy between my husband and myself that, one day not long before his death, I well remember his saying that we should soon not need the communication of speech. The next example is peculiar in that the percipient's impression seems due to a dream of the agent's of which the latter retained no memory. It will be seen that the amount of information conveyed exceeds what we can reasonably account for by the agent's having talked in his sleep. It is from our friend Mr. F. Corder, of 46, Charlwood Street, S.W., a gentleman of very high reputation in the musical world. He was at one time in the habit of hypnotising his wife for her health ; and at the time, he says, she gave me repeated proofs that she was able to ransack my mind and memory viii.] REGARDED AS TELEPATHIC. 317 far better than I myself could ; but this was when desired to do so — whereas the case to be cited was spontaneous. (93) Extract from Mr. Corder's diary, August 19th, 1882 :— Health symptoms much the same. Put her (Mrs. Corder) to sleep before she got up, in order to know the exact hours at which restoratives were to be given. She first said, ' I can't attend yet to those things ; I am thinking out your thought.' I requested an explanation. ' About Jimmy B. ; it is so strange, because I never saw him in my life ; but you were thinking about him.' I was ready to swear that I had not been thinking of my old schoolfellow for many a long day, and was about to say so when she went on : ' You were dreaming of him last night, and said, Poor Jimmy in your sleep, so I was obliged to follow out your thought t