. Recollections and reflections of a Japanese artist. was parted fromhis aunt for some twenty years. One nighthe dreamed his aunt came to say farewellto him. When he saw her last, she wasquite a young and beautiful woman, but inhis dream she was very old. Her hairs weremuch less, and grey; her wrinkled face wasalmost unrecognisable. A few days later hereceived the news of her death. He travelledhundreds miles to join her funeral. Strangeto say, he found out his dead aunt was exactlylike his dream. Here I give you my key to solve thisstrange question. As he knew his auntwas seriously ill, it wa
. Recollections and reflections of a Japanese artist. was parted fromhis aunt for some twenty years. One nighthe dreamed his aunt came to say farewellto him. When he saw her last, she wasquite a young and beautiful woman, but inhis dream she was very old. Her hairs weremuch less, and grey; her wrinkled face wasalmost unrecognisable. A few days later hereceived the news of her death. He travelledhundreds miles to join her funeral. Strangeto say, he found out his dead aunt was exactlylike his dream. Here I give you my key to solve thisstrange question. As he knew his auntwas seriously ill, it was quite natural that heshould dream she bid farewell to him. Thenabout her much changed face, of course hisimagination, which acted unconsciously in hisdream, coincided with the real had the knowledge of her old age, andalso the memory of her young face. Thesetwo together acted in the right way, as inthe case I told of the geometrical problem inmy dream. It was not at all strange. Thenthere are still many strange stories going on 154. 1- ,11 iBWiUJI. JS-Bi-Klj: MEMORY AND IMAGINATION in this civilised century, but it is toodangerous to believe every word. Most ofthose stories come from the delusion ofimagination; for we never hear a too strangestory from the matter-of-fact people. Theyalways come from rather unsound-mindedpeople. Sometimes people may dream some-thing which they have never seen. Then,when they see things, they say that they wereexactly same with their dreams. Let meexplain it. When they dream some things,their imaginations are awfully vast. Theycannot grasp the shapes definitely, only on thevery moment when they see the real thingsthey form that imaginative picture in theirdream into a definite shape after the reflec-tion of the real things, and they say it waswonderful. Even linumas story of his dream Idoubt a great deal, if he has done in this myself had a same experience quite summer I went to Wedhampton and
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