MORAL CAUSES OF DREAMING. Associations of Dreaming—Incongruous 223-235 Combinations—Source of Ideas in Dreams—Innate Idea—Undreaming Minds—Flitting of the Spirit—Fallacy of Mental Energy in the Dream—Illusion of Dreams—Marmontel
ANACHRONISM AND COINCIDENCE OF DREAMS. Celerity of Ideas in the Dream—Sacred Records of 236-256 Dreams—Danger of profane Discussion of Scripture—Fallacy of Dreams—Consequences of Credulity in Dreams
MATERIAL CAUSES OF DREAMS. Blending of Metaphysics and Philosophy—Confusion 257-269 of ancient and modern Classifications of Dreams—Curious Cases of suspended Memory—Anecdotes of Tenacity of Memory—Physiology of Memory—Ghost of an amputated Limb
INTENSE IMPRESSION.—MEMORY. Curious Cases of Associations—Deranged 270-280 Memory—Dreams of Animals—Poetic Illustrations
INFLUENCE OF DARK BLOOD IN THE BRAIN. Conditions of the Brain—Analogy of Dreaming and 281-294 Mania—Sympathetic Causes of Dreaming—Repletion—Effects of Posture in inducing Dreams—Phrenological Illustrations
INCUBUS OR NIGHT-MARE. Illustrative Incidents—Night-mare of the Mind 295-303
SOMNILOQUENCE.—SOMNAMBULISM. Stories of Sleep-talking—Stories of 304-328 Sleep-walking—Changes of disposition in Somnambulism—Abeyance of Memory during the Interval—Exactness and Energy during Somnambulism—Concentration of Power—Unconsciousness—Analysis of Sleep-walking—Theory of _Reflex Action_ of the Nervous System—Irresistibility—Disease of the Brain in Somnambulists
IMITATIVE MONOMANIA. Dance of the Middle Ages—Tarantulism—Saint Vitus’ 329-340 Dance—Tigretier—Lycanthropy—Fanaticism during the Commonwealth—Moravians—The Kent Tragedy—Stories of Imitative Suicide—Effects of Stramonium, and of Gaseous Inhalation
REVERIE. Abstraction of Idiocy—Cretinism—Wandering of the 341-352 Mind—Concentrativeness—Anecdotes illustrative of Illusive Abstraction
ABSTRACTION OF INTELLECT. Anecdotes in illustration—Brown 353-366 Study—Apathy—Heroism—Reverie of Philosophy—Sonata di Diavolo—Reverie at Caerphilly—Intense Impression—Abstraction of Deep Study—Reverie of the Dying
SOMNOLENCE.—TRANCE.—CATALEPSY. Description of Trance—Legends of Deep 367-377 Sleepers—Stories of Modern Trances—Analogies from Intense Impression—Periodical Catalepsy