ASPR Journal, V14 - Iapsop.com

600 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
" I had been under heavy radium treatment in the hospital from
10:30 in the evening unti12:30 in the morning. About noon I (then
being at Dr. Hemmeter's home) went up to my room and soon fell
into a deep sleep. Covered with my overcoat, I lay on a couch with
my face to the wall. When wakened for dinner by a rap on the
ctoor I was lying in the same position with every indication, as well
as the feeling, that I had not moved. The couch was the full length
of the room from the door and on the opposite side of the room. I
could not see in the direction of the door without turning my head.
When I met Dr. H. five or ten minutes later, as it seemed to me, in
the hall, I told him of my dream. I [dreamed that I] was in bed, and
though the room was differently arranged from any in the doctor's
house, yet I was clearly in his home. The Dr. opened the door, which
was straight across the room from my bed. I was lying on my left
side [he was actually, according to the testimony of Dr. H., lying oo
his right] and looking straight at the door. Stepping just inside the
door the doctor stood there two or three minutes looking at me and
smiling. He had on neither coat, vest, nor collar. His silk shirt was
stained a deep yellow from the neck almost to the waist as a result
of spilling some iodine which he had been using for some trouble
about the face. While I laughed at his predicament, yet I remarked
that the color was as even as it would have been if the silk had been
dyed yellow. After a few moments the yellow began to disappear
at the neck of the shirt and extended over a space about six inches
square. This portion became a beautiful blue which shaded off at
the edges into the yellow. The rest of the stain remained. I remarked
to him that there was no trace of stain on the part that had
returned to its natural color. To the contrary, it looked particularly
clean and bright. That, the Dr. said, was the way iodine acted oo
silk. I only had a straight front view of the Dr., but every bit of the
shirt seemed to be yellow almost to the waist.
"I noticed that the Dr. seemed unduly interested while I was
relating the dream. Then he told me that he was in my room about
that time, and finding me so soundly asleep thought it too bad to
waken me. So after bending over me to listen to my breathing, he
tiptoed out of the room, leaving me sound asleep. Then he called my
attention to the fact that he had on a yellow silk shirt, and that he
h!ld used iodine that morning on a tooth, if I rightly remember.
" This, I think, is a full description of the circumstances and the
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