Place withheld · 1885-03-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
March 3rd, 1885. In reply to your questions respecting the dream I had at Biarritz : 1 . What was the state of the dying person at the time of the dream? — She was unconscious.^ 2. What was the character of the dream 1 — I dreamt that we were summoned home suddenly (we had then been a week in Biarritz, and intended remaining two months), that we received a telegram announcing the sad state of my relative ; and the dream was all concerning her — and a very troublesome one. Jt wasn't an ordinary dream. I felt greatly disturbed throughout the day following, and in the evening, about dinner time, the telegram came. 1 See Chap, v., § 10, and Vol. i., p. 563, note. Miss M. Garnett writes, on December 30, 1883 : — I understand from my sister that you desire a corroboration of her remarkable dream at Biarritz. She mentioned it to me the following morning. She was much attached to the relative dreamt of.
You may rely upon the facts being as I have stated them, as I have frequently spoken to my father on the subject, the case being of such a very remarkable character. § 3. These last cases fo…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
The Vicarage, . December 9th, 1884. In reference to the subject of your note, I am able to say that I had 394 SUPPLEMENT. [chap. no means of knowing that the lady in question was ailing or e…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
November 1885. (90) The other night my husband and I dreamt at the same hour, the same dream — a subject which neither of us had been thinking of for months. It was a dream of wandering abou…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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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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