We give an instance of this kind of dream which appears to us to be only thoroughly accounted for by the theory of dual personality. The lady who was the dreamer lives in Kensington and had an office in which she carried on a business in Knightsbridge, the office being about two miles from her house.

"On the night of------ I dreamt very distinctly that 1 saw a crowd, and I heard a voice saying 'she is quite dead, I've cut her throat, I've cut her throat' I was very frightened, as it impressed me as being so real. I awoke, and noted the time - 4 a.m. The next morning at breakfast I told my family including my cousin Miss M. D. When I arrived at my place of business I saw a crowd outside the next door house, and found on inquiry that a man had murdered his wife by cutting her throat about 4 a.m. in this house.

"(Signed) A. W. - W."

"My cousin told us her dream at breakfast on

------, and I remember hearing in the evening that a murder had taken place in the house next door to my cousins office in the early morning.

"(Signed) M. D."

Miss A. W. - W. was worried about her business at the time; does it not seem a simple explanation that her dual personality was haunting her office at the time, and saw the commotion when the police discovered the crime, and thus conveyed the impression to Miss A. W. - W.'s sleeping brain?

Mere coincidence cannot account for the many instances of these "true dreams". After all, a coincidence is not an explanation; it is usually an un - deciphered sign - post

There are many persons ready to explain away absolutely proved facts by some extraordinary hypothesis. This is not scientific; it is only foolish. Mr. Edward Maitland has well expressed this kind of intelligence in the following sentence: "I recognised so fully the unphilosophical character of that attitude of mind, so conspicuous in the science of the day, which assumes that it knows the limits of possibility and accordingly puts hypothesis above truth by rejecting, prior to examination, all facts which do not accord with its hypothesis, and even while calling itself experimental, denies on the strength of its non - experience affirmations based upon experience, and considers it has effectually disposed of these".

I will now proceed to give a few instances of telepathy in dreams.

The writer has had many personal experiences of this class of dream. In 1898 while staying at Bournemouth a dream occurred which gave a deep impression that a particular and close friend (then staying in Somerset) was in great grief about something; on waking, very upset and terrified, the time was discovered to be 3 a.m. In the morning a letter was written to Somerset asking if anything had occurred to disturb this friend. The next morning arrived a letter from Somerset written at the same time (the morning before), giving an account of a terrible and most realistic dream, which seemed so real that the dreamer was made quite ill by it, and awoke at 3 A.M., trembling and sobbing, and begging the writer for help. These two letters, which crossed each other\ are now in the writer's possession.

Another time the writer dreamt of being in very great pain in the head, and this continued till apparently awakened by the pain, the time then being 12-30 a.m. The next evening a letter came, saying that the friend mentioned above had been kept awake till past twelve by violent neuralgia in the head.

These are only two instances out of many.

The following is an abstract of the original account, which was written in French, of a remarkable dream:-

From Mr. B. L. L.

"Mr. B. L. L. was a French professor at the

Ecole Reale of------, present age (in 1894 when account was written) forty - five. Towards the end of July, 1870, being in Paris, he dreamt vividly that he went into his sister's house, and found her lying dead in a coffin in the drawing - room. He woke and told a friend with him that his sister was dead. At the same moment he heard 'une voix melodieuse et qui n'avait rien de commun avec nos voix terrestres: "Ladislas cheri! Ladislas cheri! Ladislas cheri!" ' (Ladislas being his christian name). His sister died at the same time. He knew that she was ill, but the last two letters he had had about her had said that she was convalescent. His only anxiety at the time was about the approaching war with Prussia." 1

This dream could really come under the "dual personality" heading, but may also be telepathic, as most probably the sister was thinking of him at the time.

The following are very clear cases of telepathy, and are remarkable in more ways than one. It is easier to understand the first case,, as the recipient of the telepathic influence was in the room; the others have more or less distance between the subjects.

Mrs. Venn of 3 St Peter's Terrace, Cambridge, writes, referring to her son:-2

"I think the oddest experience I ever had with him was one night at Bournemouth, when he slept in my room. I dreamed a dream and woke with it, and he immediately (asleep still) in his sleep began to talk about it, proving that he was dreaming the same thing. It was a very queer dream, and involved the question of how many inches (of a row of candles) should be cut off each candle. He gravely begged me to 'cut off six inches, do, mamma'; when I was feeling four would be enough. It was a fete in our dream, and we were lighting up some room. No real thing had happened to suggest it to us, but we both dreamt it together apparently."

1 Vol. x., part xxvi. of Proceedings S. P. R.

2 Vol. xi., part xxix. of Proceedings S. P. R.

Compare the following case from a percipient known to Dr. Hodgson:-

" 2,024 Lexington Avenue, "New York, 17th February, 1893.

"About two weeks ago, I think on the night of the 3rd inst, I dreamed that I was going to a place called Pontegardo. I remembered the name distinctly on awaking, but it seemed so 'outlandish' and queer, I did not think that it could be a real name. I asked my mother if she knew of a place with such a name. She said she did not. Three or four days after that I received a letter from my husband, who is in Florida, saying that he would probably go to Puntagardo. This letter was written either the day preceding my dream or the day after.