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8. Scenery.Do you preserve the recollection of scenery with much precision of detail,
and do you find pleasure in dwelling on it? Can you easily form mental pictures from the
descriptions of scenery that are so frequently met with in novels and books of travel?
9. Comparison with reality.What difference do you perceive between a very vivid
mental picture called up in the dark, and a real scene? Have you ever mistaken a mental
image for a reality when in health and wide awake?
10.Numerals and dates.Are
these invariably associated in your mind with any
peculiar mental imagery, whether of written or printed figures, diagrams, or colours? If so,
explain fully, and say if you can account for the association?
11. Specialities.If you happen to have special aptitudes for mechanics, mathematics
(either geometry of three dimensions or pure analysis), mental arithmetic, or chess-playing
blindfold, please explain fully how far your processes depend on the use of visual images,
and how far otherwise?
12. Call up before your imagination the objects specified in the six following
paragraphs, numbered A to F, and consider carefully whether your mental representation
of them generally, is in each group very faint, faint, fair, good, or vivid and comparable to
the actual sensation
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Light and colour.—An
evenly clouded sky (omitting all landscape), first bright,
then gloomy. A thick surrounding haze, first white, then successively blue, yellow,
green, and red.
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Sound.—The beat of rain against the window panes, the crack of a whip, a church
bell, the hum of bees, the whistle of a railway, the clinking of tea-spoons and
saucers, the slam of a door.
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Smells.—Tar, roses, an oil-lamp blown out, hay, violets, a fur coat, gas, tobacco.
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Tastes.—Salt, sugar, lemon juice, raisins, chocolate, currant jelly.
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Touch.—Velvet, silk, soap, gum, sand, dough, a crisp dead leaf, the prick of a pin.
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Other sensations.—Heat, hunger, cold, thirst, fatigue, fever, drowsiness, a bad
cold.
13. Music.Have you any aptitude for mentally recalling music, or for imagining it?
14. At different ages.Do you recollect what your powers of visualising, etc., were in
childhood? Have they varied much within your recollection?
General remarks. Supplementary information written here, or on a separate piece of
paper, will be acceptable.
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