(c) _The motor image_ is a close competitor with the auditory for second place.

Have you ever awakened in the night, every muscle taut and striving, to feel

your self straining against the opposing football line that held like a

stone-wall--or as firmly as the headboard of your bed? Or voluntarily recall the

movement of the boat when you cried inwardly, "It's all up with me!" The

perilous lurch of a train, the sudden sinking of an elevator, or the unexpected

toppling of a rocking-chair may serve as further experiments.

 

(d) _The gustatory image_ is common enough, as the idea of eating lemons will

testify. Sometimes the pleasurable recollection of a delightful dinner will

cause the mouth to water years afterward, or the "image" of particularly

atrocious medicine will wrinkle the nose long after it made one day in boyhood

wretched.

 

(e) _The olfactory image_ is even more delicate. Some there are who are affected

to illness by the memory of certain odors, while others experience the most

delectable sensations by the rise of pleasing olfactory images.

 

(f) _The tactile image_, to name no others, is well nigh as potent. Do you

shudder at the thought of velvet rubbed by short-nailed finger tips? Or were you

ever "burned" by touching an ice-cold stove? Or, happier memory, can you still

feel the touch of a well-loved absent hand?

 

Be it remembered that few of these images are present in our minds except in