CHAPTER IX.. On Hallucination in General 207

ON HALLUCINATION IN GENERAL 207

Common misconceptions--Hypnotic hallucinations, experiments by MM. Binet and Féré, Mr. Myers--Point de repère--Post-hypnotic hallucinations, Professor Liégeois, Edmund Gurney--Spontaneous hallucinations, Professor Sidgwick's census--Table showing classification of spontaneous hallucinations--Origin of hallucinations, sometimes telepathic--Proof of this, calculation of chance-coincidence, allowance for defects of memory--Conclusion.