Place withheld · 1884-01-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
January 19th, 1884. I have a distinct recollection of the incident, reported to you by my wife, referring to Tennyson's lines, - Home they brought her warrior dead.' On my awaking from sleep she asked me, ' Are you awake ? ' I replied, 'Yes, and with these words on my lips, Home,' &c. She said, ' Those are the very words I want to be sure about. I have been trying to recollect whether Home or Back is the word with which the poem begins.' 322 DREAMS WHICH MAY BE REASONABLY [chap. I had not recently been reading Tennyson, and cannot account for what I have just narrated.
January, 1884. (95) My husband and I often find our thoughts occupied by the same subject, though there has been no apparent direction given to our thoughts by surrounding circumstances, and…
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This is a witness statement collected in the 1880s by Edmund Gurney, Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore of the Society for Psychical Research, and published in Phantasms of the Living (1886), the first large scientific collection of such testimony. Witnesses signed their statements and were often corroborated by others, whose statements appear as their own accounts. The book is in the public domain; the text is verbatim save for scanning artifacts, and the full volumes are at archive.org.
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