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HE talk fell on sleep and dreams.

Jean Marteau said that one dream had left an indelible impression on his mind.

"Was it a prophetic dream?" inquired Monsieur Goubin.

"In itself," replied Jean Marteau, "the dream was not remarkable, not even for its incoherence. But its images presented themselves with a painful vividness which is quite unique. Nothing I ever experienced, nothing, was ever so real to me, so actual as the visions of this dream. In that lies its interest. It enabled me to understand the illusions of a mystic. Had I been less rational I should certainly have taken it to be an apocalypse and a revelation, and I should have derived therefrom Rh