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Scherner gives an amusing case of a youth who was permitted to whisper his name into the ear of his obdurate mistress, the consequence of which was that the lady contracted a habit of dreaming about him, which led to a felicitous change of feeling on her part. The two lower senses, smell and taste, seem to play a less-important part in the production of dream-illusions.
Subjective auditory sensations appear to be much less frequent causes of dream-illusions than corresponding visual sensations. Yet the rushing, roaring sound caused by the circulation of the blood in the ear is, probably, a not uncommon starting-point in dreams. With respect to subjective sensations of smell and taste, there is little to be said.
At the same time, recent research goes to show that in many dreams something answering to the "external impression" in waking perception is the starting-point. Dream-Illusions. By dream-illusions I mean those dreams which set out from some peripheral nervous stimulation, internal or external.
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