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444 of our instinctive fear of the unknown; it shows its derivation, with what was to us an unexpected plainness, in its unpleasant nature: the observers speak of creepiness, weirdness, peculiar discomfort.

Instances of the suppression of novelty by another mood (pleasure in the completed image, charm) will be given later. It is probable that the generally unpleasant character of the mood of novelty, in the records of the present experiments, was due in part to the fact that the observers were dealing, not with a continuous imagination, but with single, detached images, and in part to the fact that these images were suggested to them by words coming in from the outside rather than by the course of their own consciousnesses: cf. Titchener, op. cit., 207.

We have now to discuss in detail the introspective differences between the image of imagination and the image of memory. The initials P and V, in the following paragraphs, refer to the observers in Experiment X (daylight images). For other observations we rely mainly upon Experiment VII (dark room images).

Imagination. Both P and V noted, without instruction given, that fixation was necessary if an image was to appear at all. V could never move her image, though she could duplicate it at some other point on the wall after renewed fixation. She reported that she could see the original image in its original place, by indirect vision, while she held the new image in direct vision. P thought that he could move his

Both P and V, again, found that the image nearly always image, but was in fact never able to follow it in passage, and said of his own accord that he was not sure it was not a new image, built up after renewed fixation.