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THE following account of a dream which I had last night, and of which I took some notes, may be of interest. The dream commenced by my, as I thought, hearing a drop fall on the laboratory floor; after a time there was another drop. I then realised that mercury was dropping on the floor from a small split in some rubber tubing in a gas-analysis apparatus. As I became more wakeful and seemed to realise that I must get up to deal with the leak, the drops fell more rapidly until they were coming quite fast at the moment when I definitely awoke. I then realised that the dropping of mercury which I heard in my dream was in reality the ticking of the clock in my room.
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BARCROFT, J. Time Relations in a Dream. Nature 104, 154 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104154a0
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