Perils by sea are another very common subject of dreams; and where a large number of people are living a life of more than average risk, and a large number of relatives on land are living under a more or less constant sense of this risk, accidental coincidences between dreams and casualties are, of course, certain to occur. Especially will this be the case where the relatives live by the seaside, and where the very storm that destroys life on one element may disturb slumber on the other. We have quite a little collection of cases where wives or mothers of seafaring men have dreamt of fatal accidents which then proved to have actually occurred. Such incidents have not usually any claim to be considered as even prima facie evidence for telepathy. Every now and then, however, "sea-dreams " present an amount of correct detail that prevents us from rejecting them. [Such a case, No. 107, is here omitted].

[The following case from the Additional Chapter belongs to this section in that the dream seems to have occurred within 12 hours of the fatal termination of the serious illness dreamt of; but the chief interest of the case is the appearance of a visual phantasm of the agent to the percipient on the following evening, but still prior to his having any knowledge of the facts.1 - Ed].

The account was obtained through the kindness of Mrs. Walwyn, of 9, Sion Hill, Clifton, Bristol, who has known the narrator from a boy.

"February 24th, 1886.

(701) " ' I dreamed that Maggie, my sister-in-law, had been taken seriously ill. The next evening, when I went into the dining-room to have my usual smoke previous to going to bed, just after I entered the room, Maggie suddenly appeared, dressed in white, with a most heavenly expression on her face. She fixed her eyes on me, walked round the room, and disappeared through the door which leads into the garden. I felt I could not speak; but followed her. On opening the door and outside shutter nothing was to be seen. I vouch for the truth of this.

" ' H. E. M.' "

Mr. M.'s mother writes to Mrs. Walwyn: -

"H. and his wife were in England in the autumn,and returned on the 9th November. They had been visiting the parents in L. - General and Mrs. R. They left the next younger sister apparently in her usual health. On Friday, the 20th, she was at the theatre with friends. At 1 a.m. she was seized with violent internal pains; these continued all day, but no danger was apprehended till 4.45 p.m., when she became insensible, and at 5.15 all was over. The cause of death, ' perforation of the stomach.' On the Saturday night H. dreamt that Maggie had been taken dangerously ill; the next evening when he went into the dining-room as usual to have his smoke previous to going to bed, just after he entered the room Maggie suddenly appeared to him. [Mrs. M.'s description of the appearance exactly coincides with her son's account].

1 Compare case 283, where the hallucination preceded the dream. For cases where a hallucination has been itself repeated after an interval, see 184, 213, 240.

"He told me in the morning what had happened. I tried to persuade him it was only an optical delusion, but he knew better. Why the apparition should have come to H. is most extraordinary, for he was not in the least superstitious, nervous, or fanciful. The only way we can account for it is that the telegram which the General sent off on Sunday never reached us, and it was actually Wednesday, the day of the funeral, before we heard the sad news, and she might have known this and come to tell us that she was gone. "R, l. M".

We find from an obituary in the Leamington News that Miss R. died on 21st November, 1885, and that she "remained perfectly conscious until 5 o'clock, when she suddenly collapsed and died in a quarter of an hour".