| Show ED KEY TO TN THE OF MEMORY answers to questions asked of american university students supply wonderful Vond erful testimony regarding psychical wonders but the problem remains unsolved freaks that memory nas has played forgotten gotten incidents that come unbidden into the mind when an effort fails to recall them aly the queer beer free freaks ks of 0 memory tire are a co constant tit puzzle ua to those alio M ho study psychical phenomena who has not been driven to the verge of 0 dusl action by the total inability to recall a name n nihon hen an eforoi elloit t was made to do so anil and when the hc occasion ocen sion for such remembrance was past hail had the rill name flash into the mind apparently of its own volition the year Is nearing in IN close but how many of 0 us its can r recall 11 readily the chief incidents of the last ten months and say gay accurately in what month they red try it and see great minds have wrestled to find nn an explanation for or the pranks that memory inen tory playa and have had to give up the effort t in the course of 0 a systematic attempt to arrive at some under a banding with regard to the wonders 0 of memory a very valuable vaI and unique body of testimony has been obtained the lol foll loping oming questions have been put to american university students and professional persons being men and forty nine being women the an answers lers are here given mith the questions question I 1 when you cannot recall aflame you want does it seem to come back spontaneously without belne being plug ug rested by any elved association of ideas to this 11 per cent answered IN no and sl 51 per cent yes question U C atton 2 2 2 does docs such recovery ever ayi como during bleed bleep e 1 p to 1 17 per cent answered ans no N 0 and 28 per cent yes 1 examples given 1 I this coining I 1 tried to recall the name of a character I 1 had read of the night in one of scotts novels and tailed failed I 1 laught EL a class and walking home in the afternoon rill all tile the jamea n to r recurred to me without effort II 11 I 1 tried rd to recall the name of a book book ga a it up halt half an hour after IN while tile talking of 0 something else clae bluit ed it out v uncut conscious volition question 3 2 on a sight bight or hearing a sound tor for the ilat time tl in Q have you ever felt elt that you had d seen con 5 or heard board the a sime me before fifty nine per cent anam eyed yes yea th the action of unconscious memory 4 u ing sleep Is illustrated by further queries question 4 do you dream ninety four per cent answered yes que tion 6 can son wake at a ri r it on en hour determined before going colne to alecil sari p waking up many times be bc foie fifty nine allic per cent answered yes 51 31 per cent answered no question 0 6 it if you can how about f failure fAl lure el sixty nine per cent seldom failed 23 25 pr por cent often question 7 do you come direct from obal ion into consciousness sixty four per cent answered yes and 16 per cent gradually examples 1 I 1 ly had ad 0 to o give medicine every two hours exa exactly c ely to rny my m wife ife I 1 am a very sound sleeper but tor for six elx meeks ft acks I 1 up every two hours and never kitred mitred sed riving giving the medicine II 11 I 1 am always awake five minutes before the hour I 1 sot set the alarm ill III I 1 lied lad had little sleep for ten days and went to bed at 9 asking to bo be called at midnight I 1 fell asleep at once I 1 rose and dressed as aa the clock struck k 12 and could not believe I 1 lad had not lot been called A strange phenomenon hia bag come to light in the course of oc the inquiry into the mystery of memory it has been discovered that by gazing steadily at a crystal consciousness is partly lost into the elio void thus produced those who ullo have practiced crystal gazing find that there enter unbidden forgotten incidents and lost memories to give a few instances Instance st A lady in crystal gaz ing saw a bit of daik wall mail covered with it ith ni walto title flom losers era sin she was con conscious alous iho it must havo have seen it somewhere but I 1 had no DO recollection where she walked over tho the ground site she had jutt just traversed and found the wall mall which sho she lad had passed unnoticed she took out her ter bankbook bank book another day shortly afterward she was mas gazing at the crystal and saw law nothing but the number sh thought it was some hack back number but taking up the bankbook bank book found to her surprise it waa mag the number of the account at another time she destroyed a letter without noting the address she could only remember the town aal after r gazing tit at the crystal som tl time she ly S saw jefferson avenue she h addressed tho the letter thus ad adding the town and found it was rl right g lit A lady sat pat in a room to write where she had bad sat and studied ea eight I 1 lit years before site she felt her feet ma moving ing restlessly under the table and then re ed that eight years before she always alays had it a foot fool stool it was this her feet were seeking psychical research brings to light many cases of slit similar nilar strange tricks of 0 memory it Is easy to find instances that servo serve to deepen the matery it la Is not so easy to give an explanation tile the cleverest men N who ho have attempted to do so have had to admit defeat |
