J. Brown, paid his rent regularly, and acted like other people.
At last, in the middle of the night, he awoke to his former
consciousness, and finding himself in a strange place, supposed
he had made a mistake and might be taken for a burglar. He was
found in a state of great alarm by his neighbors, to whom he
stated that he was a minister, and that his home was in Rhode
Island. His friends were sent for and recognized him, and he
returned to his home after an absence of two years of absolutely
foreign existence. A most careful investigation of the case was
made on behalf of the London Society for Psychical Research.
An exhaustive paper on this subject, written by Richard Hodgson
in the proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, states
that Mr. Bourne had in early life shown a tendency to abnormal
psychic conditions; but he had never before engaged in trade, and
nothing could be remembered which would explain why he had
assumed the name A. J. Brown, under which he did business. He
had, however, been hypnotized when young and made to assume
various characters on the stage, and it is possible that the name
A. J. Brown was then suggested to him, the name resting in his
memory, to be revived and resumed when he again went into a
hypnotic trance.
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