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Dendy, Walter Cooper
NATURE OF SLEEP.
Unconsciousness of Sleep—Necessity of Slumber—Malady of Collins—Somnolency of the Brute and of Savages—Periods of Sleep—Sleeplessness and its Antidotes
193-204
SUBLIMITY AND IMPERFECTION OF DREAMING.
Unconsciousness of the Dream—Arguments on this question—Episode of a dreaming Life
205-213
PROPHECY OF DREAMS.
Ancient Prophetic Dreams—Stories of modern Prophecies in Dreaming
214-222
MORAL CAUSES OF DREAMING.
Associations of Dreaming—Incongruous 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
223-235
ANACHRONISM AND COINCIDENCE OF DREAMS.
Celerity of Ideas in the Dream—Sacred Records of Dreams—Danger of profane Discussion of Scripture—Fallacy of Dreams—Consequences of Credulity in Dreams
236-256
MATERIAL CAUSES OF DREAMS.
Blending of Metaphysics and Philosophy—Confusion 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
257-269
INTENSE IMPRESSION.—MEMORY.
Curious Cases of Associations—Deranged Memory—Dreams of Animals—Poetic Illustrations
270-280
INFLUENCE OF DARK BLOOD IN THE BRAIN.
Conditions of the Brain—Analogy of Dreaming and Mania—Sympathetic Causes of Dreaming—Repletion—Effects of Posture in inducing Dreams—Phrenological Illustrations
281-294
INCUBUS OR NIGHT-MARE.
Illustrative Incidents—Night-mare of the Mind
295-303
SOMNILOQUENCE.—SOMNAMBULISM.
Stories of Sleep-talking—Stories of 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
304-328
IMITATIVE MONOMANIA.
Dance of the Middle Ages—Tarantulism—Saint Vitus’ Dance—Tigretier—Lycanthropy—Fanaticism during the Commonwealth—Moravians—The Kent Tragedy—Stories of Imitative Suicide—Effects of Stramonium, and of Gaseous Inhalation
329-340
REVERIE.
Abstraction of Idiocy—Cretinism—Wandering of the Mind—Concentrativeness—Anecdotes illustrative of Illusive Abstraction
341-352
ABSTRACTION OF INTELLECT.
Anecdotes in illustration—Brown Study—Apathy—Heroism—Reverie of Philosophy—Sonata di Diavolo—Reverie at Caerphilly—Intense Impression—Abstraction of Deep Study—Reverie of the Dying
353-366
SOMNOLENCE.—TRANCE.—CATALEPSY.