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in substance a hallucination—the stuff of which dreams are made—and has no more materiality, or quasi-materiality, than they.

Collective hallucinations, or what purport to be such, though far less common than solitary hallucinations, are still fairly numerous. In the Census 95 visual cases were reported at first hand, as compared with 992 cases of unshared hallucinations. The following table shows the nature of the collective hallucinations reported in the Census.

Collective Visual Hallucinations, divided according to conditions of perception^[1]

	Percipients in bed	Percipients up and indoors	Seen out of doors	Totals.
Realistic human apparitions of living persons	03	10	14	27
Realistic human„ apparitions„ dead persons	—	06	02	08
Realistic human„ apparitions„ unrecognised	02	13	17	32
Incomplete developed apparitions	04	04	04	12
Visions	—	—	—	—
Angels and religious apparition: or visions	—	—	—	—
Apparitions, grotesque, horrible, or monstrous	01	—	02	03
Apparitions„ of animals	—	03	01	04
Apparitions„ of definite inanimate objects	—	01	—	01
Apparitions„ of lights	01	—	01	02
Apparitions„ of indefinite objects	—	05	01	06
Totals..........	11	42	42	95

1. Proceedings, S. P. R., vol. x., p. 414.