It was found that everything had transpired as she had described. One of the races had been a failure, the horses coming in neck and neck; all bets were cancelled and new bets were made, which caused the excitement which she had witnessed. She surprised those who were present by the accuracy of her description, both of the place and the events, especially of the excitement caused by making the new bets.
On the same occasion, before awakening her, I said to her: “Now, I have something very particular to say to you and I want you to pay close attention.
“This evening when your dinner is brought up to you—you, A. B.’s second self, will make A. B. see me come in and stand here at the foot of the bed. I shall say to you: ‘Hello! you are at dinner. Well, I won’t disturb you,’ and immediately I shall go. And you will write me about my visit.” I then awoke her in the usual manner. This was Tuesday, July 3, 1894. On Thursday following I received this note, which I have in my possession.
“Dear Dr. Mason:—
“As I was eating my dinner on Tuesday I heard some one say ‘Good-evening.’ I turned around surprised, as I had heard no one enter the room, and there at the foot of the bed I saw you.
“I said ‘Halloo! won’t you sit down?’ you said: ‘Are you taking your dinner? Then I won’t detain you,’ and before I could detain you, you disappeared as mysteriously as you had come. Why did you leave so suddenly? Were you angry? Mary, the nurse, says you were not here at all at dinner-time. I say you were. Which of us is right?
“Sincerely,
“A. B.”
(Full name signed.)
The clairvoyant faculty is sometimes exercised in sleep, and hence the importance so often attached to dreams. I have a patient, Miss M. L., thirty-five years of age, who has been under my observation for the past fifteen years, and for whose truthfulness and good sense I can fully vouch. From childhood she has been a constant and most troublesome somnambulist, walking almost every night, until two years ago when I first hypnotized her and suggested that she should not again leave her bed while asleep, and she has not done so.
This person’s dreams are marvellously vivid, but her most vivid ones she does not call dreams. She says, “When I dream I dream, but when I see I see.”