[49] Cædmon's poem was traditionally said to have come to him in like fashion.
[50] The reader will find many similar cases in the Journal and Proceedings of the S.P.R. Several are quoted in Appendices to Section 421 in the unabridged edition.
[51] The case of Mr. Boyle, investigated by Edmund Gurney and printed in S.P.R. Journal, vol. iii. pp. 265, 266 [§423], is interesting in this connection. In this case the vision, which recurred twice, was of a simple kind, and might be interpreted as an impression transferred from the mind of one waking to the mind of one asleep.
Again, the single dream which a man has noted down in all his life stands evidentially in almost as good a position as a single waking hallucination. For cases of this kind see Journal S.P.R., vol. iii. p. 267 [§424]; ibid. vol. v. p. 61 [424 A]; ibid. vol. v. p. 252 [424 C]; and Phantasms of the Living, vol. i. p. 443 [424 B].
[52] Phantasms of the Living, vol. ii. p. 105 [428 A].
[53] Phantasms of the Living, vol. ii. p. 154 [428 D].
The cases of Mrs. Manning (Journal S.P.R., vol. xii. p. 100 [428 B]) and Mr. Newnham (Phantasms of the Living, vol. i. p. 225 [428 C]) are somewhat similar. See also Proceedings S.P.R., vol. xi. p. 444 [428 E] and Journal S.P.R., vol viii. p. 128 [428 F].
[54] Phantasms of the Living, vol. i. p. 365; ibid., p. 453 [429 A and B].
[55] See, for example, Journal S.P.R., vol. viii. p. 123 [429 F].
[56] Long ago Solon had said, apparently of mesmeric cure—