The Bishop of Clogher writes confirmatory of Dr. Young’s account.
“Borderland cases” are those in which the percipient, though seeming to himself to be awake, may be in bed, has perhaps been asleep, and is in that condition between sleeping and waking known as reverie and which we have seen is favorable for the action of the subliminal self, either as agent or percipient.
Passing, then, from dreams to “Borderland cases,” the first example under this head which I will present is from Mrs. Richardson, of Combe Down, Bath, England.
She writes:—
“August 26th, 1882.
“On September 9th, 1848, at the Siege of Mooltan, my husband, Major-General Richardson, C. B., then adjutant of his regiment, was most severely wounded, and supposing himself dying, asked one of the officers with him to take the ring off his finger and send it to his wife, who at that time was fully one hundred and fifty miles distant, at Ferozepore. On the night of September 9th, 1848, I was lying in my bed between sleeping and waking, when I distinctly saw my husband being carried off the field seriously wounded, and heard his voice saying, ‘Take this ring off my finger and send it to my wife.’
“All the next day I could not get the sight nor the voice out of my mind. In due time I heard of Gen. Richardson having been severely wounded in the assault on Mooltan. He survived, however, and is still living. It was not for some time after the siege that I heard from Colonel L., the officer who helped to carry Gen. Richardson off the field, that the request as to the ring was actually made to him, just as I had heard it at Ferozepore at that very time.
“M. A. Richardson.”
The following questions were addressed to Gen. Richardson.
1. “Does Gen. Richardson remember saying, when he was wounded at Mooltan, ‘Take this ring off my finger and send it to my wife,’ or words to that effect?”