Place withheld · 1884-01-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
No, I remember none. It was quite unique. But why call it a dream when I was wide awake 1 Had it been a dream I don't think it would have made the same impression on me. Miss Wilkinson's sister writes on Jan. 8, 1884, from Castle Hill, Enniscorthy : — I distinctly remember my sister relating to us (myself and another sister) her vision or dream before she got any letter. It made a great impression on her, and she told us with surprise and a little alarm. She told us on Tuesday morning, and the letter telling of the accident arrived soon after.
February 29th, 1884. I have been trying to ascertain the exact date of my dream about my friend's death, but cannot remember anything nearer than that it was some time in the spring of 1878.…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
The fact is she only woke for an instant, and as she is 9 years younger than myself, and I saw she believed I had only been dreaming this, I spared her. I had not fallen asleep. I did not ar…
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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