Histories of Dreams and Dreaming by Giorgia Morgese & Giovanni Pietro Lombardo & Hendrika Vande Kemp

Histories of Dreams and Dreaming by Giorgia Morgese & Giovanni Pietro Lombardo & Hendrika Vande Kemp

Author:Giorgia Morgese & Giovanni Pietro Lombardo & Hendrika Vande Kemp
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030165307
Publisher: Springer International Publishing


An Externalized Illusion of Levitation

One of the simplest levitation dreams illustrated in Horton’s articles was the floating piano dream of an academic psychologist who participated in the early sleep studies. He told Horton (1918b) (Fig. 7.4):

Fig. 7.4Externalized illusion of levitation. (Reproduced from The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1918, 13, 121)

I meant to tell you about a sort of waking dream that I used to have. I would be lying on the bed and I would see a large heavy piano that we had, floating in the air. This was when I was a kid, ten or eleven. I would imagine I saw this piano getting larger and larger and soaring in the air above me. And I would be afraid that it was going to fall and I would cry out and the family would not know what was the matter with me, for I could not seem to tell them. Presently the piano would stop getting larger and would seem to fall and I would expect that there would be a great crash but it never came. Then the thing would pass away. (121)



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