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"I was sitting there, talking to the girls" R.W. said, "when all of a sudden I felt this terrible pinch. 1 must have jumped a foot. I thought my brother-in-law had come back and sneaked up behind me. I turned around, but there was no one there. I never had any idea it was you! It hurt!" I apologized for pinching so hard, and she obtained from me a promise that if I tried any such thing again, I would try something other than a pinch that hard. In this episode, the time coincides with the actual events. Autosuggestion hallucination, indeterminate, as willful desire was suggested, and preknowledge was present of general location of R.W. at that time. Identical reports with conditions of actual events: (1) Location (inside rather than outside). (2) Number of people present. (3) Description of girls. (4) Actions of people present. (5) The acknowledgment of pinching. (6) Physical marks from pinching. Possibility of unconscious preknowledge through earlier ob-servation of the above: (1) Negative, preknowledge implied activity outdoors on beach rather than indoors. (2) Negative, preknowledge implied adults in group, as R.W. was visiting sister and brother-in-law. (3) Negative-indeterminate, possibility of preknowledge of niece and hair color through R.W. sometime previously, negative as to friend of niece, her hair color and age. (4) Negative, no preknowledge of non-existent habit pattern for that particular moment of day.