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Myers, F W H - Proceedings of the Society for Psychical research Vol IV, Part 11 - Another lucid dream
Identifier
002022
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
F W H Myers – Proceedings of the Society for Psychical research Vol IV, Part 11, May 1887 pp241-242
I was, I thought, standing in my study; but I observed that the furniture had not its usual distinctness – that everything was blurred and somehow evaded a direct gaze. It struck me that this must be because I was dreaming. This was a great delight to me, as giving the opportunity of experimentation….
As I walked downstairs I looked carefully at the stair carpet, to see whether I could visualise better in dream than in waking life. I found that this was not so; the dream carpet was not like what I knew it in truth to be; rather it was a thin ragged carpet, apparently vaguely generalised from memories of seaside lodgings