once if she had seen me last night. The reply came, "Yes." "How?" I inquired. Then in words strangely clear and low, like a well audible whisper, came the answer, "I was sitting beside you." These words, so clear, awoke me instantly, and I felt I must have been dreaming; but on reflection I remembered what I had been "willing" before I fell asleep, and it struck me, "This must be a reflex action from the percipient."
My watch showed 3.40 a.m. The following is what I wrote immediately in pencil, standing in my night dress: "As I reflected upon those clear words, they struck me as being quite intuitive, I mean subjective, and to have proceeded from within, as my own conviction, rather than a communication from any one else. And yet I can't remember her face at all, as one can after a vivid dream."
But the words were uttered in a clear, quick tone, which was most remarkable, and awoke me at once.
My friend, in the note with which she sent me the enclosed account of leer own experience, says: "I remember the man put all the lamps out soon after I came upstairs, and that is only done about a quarter to four."
Mr. Godfrey received from the percipient on the 16th November an account of her side of the experience, and at his request she wrote as follows:
