Part 2

PHANTASY FROM MENTAL ASSOCIATION. Influence of interesting localities—Definition of 52-66 a Phantom—An intense idea—Demonomania—Stings of Conscience—Curious effect of peculiar study or intense thought—Darkness and Obscurity—Romance of reality—A mysterious incident

PHANTASY FROM CEREBRAL EXCITEMENT. Second Sight—National propensity to the 67-79 Sight—Romance and Poetry of the Mountains—Morbid predisposition to Second Sight—Unearthly Visions on the eve of Dissolution—Glimpses of Reason in dying Maniacs

PHANTASY FROM CEREBRAL CONGESTION. Phantoms of intellectual Minds—Illusion of 80-88 Opium—Illustrations of Narcotic Influence

POETIC PHANTASY, OR FRENZY. Inspiration of Poesy and 89-100 Painting—Shakspere—Fuseli—Blake—Philosophy and Madness—Illusion of Tasso—Truth of Poesy—Splendid illusions at the onset of Mania—Melancholy constitution and decay of Poetic Minds—Letter of a Cheromaniac—Sensibility—Unhappy consequences of cherishing Romance—Fragment of John Keats

PHANTASY FROM SYMPATHY WITH THE BRAIN. Philosophy of Moral Causes—Effect of thought and 101-112 of the function of the Stomach in producing physical changes in the Brain—Stories in proof of this influence—Illusions from Derangements of Vision—Curious cases of ocular Spectra from peculiar conditions of the Eye

MYSTERIOUS FORMS AND SIGNS. Stories of Supernatural Appearances 113-122

ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF SPECTRAL ILLUSION. Credulity—Arrangement of Causes of Spectral 123-140 Illusion—Illustration of Atmospheric Illusions—Natural Phenomena—Fata Morgana—Schattenman of the Brocken—Romance of unlettered minds

ILLUSIONS OF ART. Monkish Impostures—Optical Toys—Spontaneous 141-146 Combustion

ILLUSTRATION OF MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS. Elemental Causes—Impositions at 147-154 Woodstock—Tedworth—Cock Lane—Subterranean Sounds—Currents of Air—Memnon—Phonic Instruments—Vocal curiosity in young Richmond

FAIRY MYTHOLOGY. Origin of Faëry—Legends of the Mythology of 155-165 various Climes—Cauld Lad of Hilton

DEMONOLOGY. Classic and Indian Mythology—Embodying of a 166-177 Demon—Stories illustrative of the Superstitions of Ireland and Cornwall—Legend of the Changelings—Poetry of Nature—Preadamite Beings

NATURE OF SOUL AND MIND. Psychology of the Greeks and of the 178-192 Moderns—Essence of Phrenology—Lord Brougham—Priestley—Paley—Johnson—Modes of Sepulture—Paradise—Atheism—Deity—Hindu Mythology—Senile Intellect

NATURE OF SLEEP. Unconsciousness of Sleep—Necessity of 193-204 Slumber—Malady of Collins—Somnolency of the Brute and of Savages—Periods of Sleep—Sleeplessness and its Antidotes

SUBLIMITY AND IMPERFECTION OF DREAMING. Unconsciousness of the Dream—Arguments on this 205-213 question—Episode of a dreaming Life

PROPHECY OF DREAMS. Ancient Prophetic Dreams—Stories of modern 214-222 Prophecies in Dreaming

MORAL CAUSES OF DREAMING. Associations of Dreaming—Incongruous 223-235 Combinations—Source of Ideas in Dreams—Innate Idea—Undreaming Minds—Flitting of the Spirit—Fallacy of Mental Energy in the Dream—Illusion of Dreams—Marmontel

ANACHRONISM AND COINCIDENCE OF DREAMS. Celerity of Ideas in the Dream—Sacred Records of 236-256 Dreams—Danger of profane Discussion of Scripture—Fallacy of Dreams—Consequences of Credulity in Dreams

MATERIAL CAUSES OF DREAMS. Blending of Metaphysics and Philosophy—Confusion 257-269 of ancient and modern Classifications of Dreams—Curious Cases of suspended Memory—Anecdotes of Tenacity of Memory—Physiology of Memory—Ghost of an amputated Limb

INTENSE IMPRESSION.—MEMORY. Curious Cases of Associations—Deranged 270-280 Memory—Dreams of Animals—Poetic Illustrations

INFLUENCE OF DARK BLOOD IN THE BRAIN. Conditions of the Brain—Analogy of Dreaming and 281-294 Mania—Sympathetic Causes of Dreaming—Repletion—Effects of Posture in inducing Dreams—Phrenological Illustrations

INCUBUS OR NIGHT-MARE. Illustrative Incidents—Night-mare of the Mind 295-303

SOMNILOQUENCE.—SOMNAMBULISM. Stories of Sleep-talking—Stories of 304-328 Sleep-walking—Changes of disposition in Somnambulism—Abeyance of Memory during the Interval—Exactness and Energy during Somnambulism—Concentration of Power—Unconsciousness—Analysis of Sleep-walking—Theory of Reflex Action of the Nervous System—Irresistibility—Disease of the Brain in Somnambulists

IMITATIVE MONOMANIA. Dance of the Middle Ages—Tarantulism—Saint Vitus’ 329-340 Dance—Tigretier—Lycanthropy—Fanaticism during the Commonwealth—Moravians—The Kent Tragedy—Stories of Imitative Suicide—Effects of Stramonium, and of Gaseous Inhalation

REVERIE. Abstraction of Idiocy—Cretinism—Wandering of the 341-352 Mind—Concentrativeness—Anecdotes illustrative of Illusive Abstraction

ABSTRACTION OF INTELLECT. Anecdotes in illustration—Brown 353-366 Study—Apathy—Heroism—Reverie of Philosophy—Sonata di Diavolo—Reverie at Caerphilly—Intense Impression—Abstraction of Deep Study—Reverie of the Dying

SOMNOLENCE.—TRANCE.—CATALEPSY. Description of Trance—Legends of Deep 367-377 Sleepers—Stories of Modern Trances—Analogies from Intense Impression—Periodical Catalepsy

PREMATURE INTERMENT.—RESUSCITATION. Stories in Illustration—Romance, Life in 378-392 Death—Causes of Resuscitation—Disunion of Mind and Body—Insensibility of the Decollated Head—Sensations during Hanging and Drowning—Case of Dr. Adam Clarke

TRANSMIGRATION.—ANALYSIS OF TRANCE. State of the Spirit after Death—Fables of 393-404 Transmigration—Superstition in India and England—Tenacity of Life—Hybernation—Sleep of Plants—Physiology of Trance