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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.
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 |
- ↑ Proceedings, S. P. R., vol. x., p. 414.