Brain Light and Breams.
Professor Scripture, of Yale, has found reason to think that the faint light which we can see in darkness, or with closed eyes, and which appears in the form of rings, waves, and irregular figures, is due, not as is generally supposed, to chemical changes going on in the retina, but to something occurring in the brain, and he proposes to call it ‘ cerebral light.’ It appears to be located ‘in those higher centres of ihe brain which are con nected with visual memories and imaginations.’ A close connection has been observed between these cerebral light figures and the contents of dreams, and Professor Scripture suggests that the hallucinations produced by drugs, like hasheesh, may be simply modifications of such figures.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2066, 8 January 1898, Page 2
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125Brain Light and Breams. Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2066, 8 January 1898, Page 2
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