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the whole table at once. The things recalled are generally clearly defined. Our table is a long one; I can in my mind pass my
eyes all down the table and see the different things distinctly,, but not the whole table at once.
Cases where the faculty is at the lowest.
89. Dim and indistinct, yet I can give an account of this morning’s breakfast
table; split herrings, broiled chickens,. bacon, rolls, rather light-coloured marmalade, faint green plates with stiff pink flowers, the girls’ dresses, etc. etc. I
can also tell where all the dishes were, and where the people sat (I was-on a visit). But my imagination is seldom pictorial except between sleeping and Waking,
when I sometimes see rather-vivid forms.
90. Dim and not comparable in brightness to the real scene.. Badly defined with blotches of light; very incomplete.
91. Dim, poor definition; could not sketch from it. I have-a difficulty
92. - n seeing two images together.
Usually very dim. I cannot speak of its brightness, but only of its faintness. Not well defined and very incomplete.. 93. Dim, imperfect.
94. I am very rarely able to recall any object whatever with-any sort of distinctness. Very occasionally an object or image will recall itself, but even then it is more like a generalised image than an individual image. I seem to be almost destitute’-of visualising power, as under control.
in No power of visualising. Between sleeping and waking,.
illness and in health, with eyes closed, some remarkable-scenes have occasionally presented themselves, but I cannot recall them when awake with eyes open, and by daylight, or’ under any circumstances whatever when a copy could be made of them on paper. I have drawn both men and places many days or weeks after seeing them, but it was by an effort of memory acting on study at the time, and assisted by trial and error on the paper or canvas, whether in black, yellow, or colour,. afterwards.
96. It is only as a figure of speech that I can describe my recollection of a scene as a “mental image” which I can “see "
my “mind's eye.” . . . The memory possesses it, and the’ mind can at will roam over the whole, or study minutely any part.
97. No individual objects, only a general idea of a very’ uncertain kind.
98. No. My memory is not of the nature of a spontaneous vision. though I remember well where a word occurs in a page,.
how furniture looks in a room, etc. The ideas not felt to be mental pictures, but rather the symbols of facts.
