Place withheld · 1886-01-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
I should wish it to be understood that I look on the dream and the accident as mere coincidence.^ The accident was slight, but there was considerable effusion of blood. «« !{,, Y. Tyreell. ' In answer to inquiries, Mrs. Bramly says : I am a very restless, uneasy sleeper, and every night dream the wildest dreams possible. I have never, however, except in this instance, dreamed of any accident to anyone, or of the death of anyone. (433) From Mr. Durell, Wrenthorpe, The Thicket, Southsea. April 1, 1886. On the night of the 4th May, 1863, when I was in Australia,^ I dreamed that a postman handed me a letter with a deep black border. The purport of the letter was to announce the death of an uncle in England, and that he had left me some property which would necessitate my immediate return to England. When I awoke, the dream still haunted me, and I made a note of it, and mentioned it to several of my friends, feeling sure I should hear of my uncle's death. I could not do so by the next mail, but the one after that brought me the intelligence of his death on the 4th of May, the day of my dream, and he had left me property which required my return to England. I had no idea of my uncle's illness, and still less that he was going to leave me any property.
I am a very restless, uneasy sleeper, and every night dream the wildest dreams possible. I have never, however, except in this instance, dreamed of any accident to anyone, or of the death of…
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Icomb Rectory, Stow-on-the-Wold. February 12th, 1886. I regret that, at this distance, I cannot give you dates. As far as my recollections go, Tracy told me of his dream on the morning follo…
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My friend Miss P., who was with me that night, I have lost sight of for years. Yes, I often dream, but I have not realised a death in an illustrated form except that once. [One rather distru…
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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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