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Clairvoyant (?) Dream. 595
down reflecting over his condition and whether perhaps the internal
medication with iodine could benefit. (I forgot to state that I had
used iodine that morning on a part of the gum in my mouth.) The!n
I went down and joined my wife and Miss Steiner in the library.
Miss Steiner said that she had just peeped into Dr. Swain's room,
that the curtains were drawn and the room was quite dark, but she
could see him indistinctly, apparently still asleep. This was about a
half hour after I had been in Dr. Swain's room myself. Even if he
had awakened at the moment, he could not have recognized either
Miss Swain or myself because the room was too much darkened.
At 2 P. M. Ida, the maid, rapped at Dr. Swain's door and awakened
him, and presently he came down to the library dressed for
dinner. He said, 1 I didn't think you would be back from church S()
early, your church is so far away.' We went into the dining room
and Swain, continuing to talk, said, 1 I had a very vivid dream about
you: it may have been three quarters of an hour ago. I dreamt you
came into my room dressed in a yellow shirt, and you had a yellow
liquid on your teeth, and after studying me awhile, you went to the
bath room and then to your study, and in your study you meditated
profoundly on my condition and whether the yellow liquid could be
effective.' Miss Steiner and I exchanged looks. I replied, 1 Dr.
Swain, I really was in your room bending over you [and] listened a
long time to your breathing. The room is very familiar to me and I
could find you in the dark; and then I went to my study to meditate
over your condition.' Dr. Swain stood aghast; he said, • Did you
meditate over my condition in your study?' I said, • Yes, sir.' I
believe if I had used the Freudian method of psychoanalysis, I could
have penetrated into the profoundest depths of his subconscious at
that time; but he appeared enough upset already and our next efforts
were directed to assuring him, and we took him out to an auto
ride ... .
" P. S. I omitted to state that on that Sunday I wore a yellow
silk shirt, a shirt which was given me as a Christmas present, and
which I ordinarily do not like to wear, because of its color; but as I
wished to get some use out of it, I put it on this Sunday, for when I
have my coat on, very little of the shirt can be seen. The description
of the color of the shirt and that it stopped at the waist line, and of
the yellow color on the teeth by Dr. Swain, is most striking."
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