Show Crystal Gazing T Tests Hearing of Dreamers Day Experiment on Normal Mental Cases A DARKENED room I X An insane patient lato ato to a sky blue illuminated crystal Earphones strapped to the patients patient's head Still Still- iness nets broken only by the monotonous monotonous onous onous hum of an aD electric fan an I IA A scientist sitting In a booth IU oUy operating a noiseless elec elec- trio switch Th Tb scene was waa not Dot that of ot a It aUDet What bat was 1111 going on OD was waa wasa a test tNt of th the effect dreaming day aaa W on the Wes sense eeoc of bearin hearing bearing The suggestion h has haa been made that per per- sons oat with certain mental diseases c cao a t b be picked out from normal per per- persons sons IOU by bl the way wal they respond to this thU unusual situation Normal persons as u well aa at mental ment were tested First each Individual was waa given hen a test teat of auy u pod and od various other mesa meu- orea WM designed to reveal hi his type 1111 of ot personality Th Then n b he Wit was given rIen a hearing teat test under ordinary conditions condl condi hone sounds of ot varying loudness to him through the the earphone rt hooe He De was WI Instructed to press re a I signal key bl Ute like a lel telegraph each era time he be It beard heard a sound Told TeM t to Diy DayDream Wait Next fc waa at allowed to gate rue Into the tha crystal and was waa 1111 told to relax reIn completely p dream day and Ind build air air- fades W U e- e 1 let IM lit his mind wander wherever CeYer It would Ue Pe to toI Usten particularly for the tbt tone tonea but butto to tAl wd th t J It 1 er cam came hla l. l fin fin- eer ter would press prec the tbt ke key What happens happen to your hearing oa- oa Ate der these theae co conditions condition Well Weil about oae oae of ot those thane tested showed BO DO change at at t all Another third pressed the key after atter fainter sounds than they thel had bid been able abl to hear UD tinder er ordinary conditions condition For Forthe Forthe the Be remaining third the tb sound had bad to be louder loader In la order to gain raiD a reThe re re- M The Tb teat tat waa wu not Dot successful la to picking out the mentally abnormal from the tb Donna normal except that those thoe with the mental meDIal disease U dementia praecox showed tau leaa change than This was waa attributed to the chara characteristic Inability of those tho pa pa- to da adapt no to DO new conditions condition the psychiatrist cans calla this quality from the urns same root aa the familiar word o perseverance perseverance Differ m Why do 40 normal DOrmal persona differ In Inthe the way tbs the crystal gating affects affect their hearing The explanation b by the Investigating scientist ta Ie that tome some an are able abl to directions loU the they relax reIn thoroughly dream daydream and ana ret got sleepy leep They So the not DOt hear bear II so well i Otters were weN rot not able abla to do 40 as u la- la t they thy were weN disturbed b by it the sh situation and Instead of relax relax- lag IKS became more mON un tense Tb They were weN alert and heard better than usual The third group roup were not affected affect affect- ed 04 d by bJ the situation at aU all Their remained aa u always |