In the same way, in August, 1890, a lady in a Boston hotel in the duskrang for the lift, walked along the corridor and looked out of awindow, started to run to the door of the lift, saw a man in front ofit, stopped, and when the lighted lift came up, found that the doorwas wide open and that, had she run on as she intended, she would havefallen down the well. Here part of her mind may have known that thedoor was open, and started a ghost (for there was no real man there)to stop her. Pity that these things do not occur more frequently.They do--in New Zealand. {82}These are a few examples of useful veracious waking dreams. The sortof which we hear most are "wraiths". A, when awake, meets B, who isdead or dying or quite well at a distance. The number of thesestories is legion. To these we advance, under their Highland title,_spirits of the living_.
