ASPR Journal, V14 - Iapsop.com

Clairvoyant (f) Dream. 603
It is disconcerting to find Dr. Swain in this account of his
experience positively denying what Dr. Hemmeter, Mrs. Hemmeter
and Miss Steiner all report as contained in his original
story and what Dr. Hemmeter notes as omitted from the story
as repeated to Mr. Oehm, namely, that the thought of Dr. Hemmeter
as sitting down and meditating on his condition formed any
part of the dream whatsoever. There is an increasing elaboration
of this feature of the story from Miss Steiner's," he thought Dr.
sat down and thought over the case," through Mrs. Hemmeter's,
" then Dr. H. sat down in his study and thought deeply about my
case and its treatment," to Dr. Hemmeter's report that S. thought
of him as going to the bath room and then to the study and meditating
profoundly on his (S.'s) condition, a feature which, when
told that it actually occurred, caused Dr. Swain to stand aghast.
Various hypotheses might be invoked to account for these discrepancies
and this contradiction in the testimony. It is possible that
Dr. Swain may have forgotten. But Dr. Swain is an intelligent
man and if he really had been impressed as Dr. Hemmeter says he
was, and as he well might have been, by the discovery of so precise
a correspondence between what he thought in his dream and
facts of which he could have had no normal knowledge, is it
likely that he would so soon have forgotten it? He did not speak
of it in narrating his dream to Mr.