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I SHOULD like to learn if the following phenomenon is well known and alluded to in scientific writings. While lying awake a few mornings ago, with my eyelids closed, I was startled by a railway whistle. At the same instant I perceived a blaze of light on a dark ground seemingly a few yards off. I made inquiry of my wife (who is of a much more nervous temperament than I) if she had ever observed such a coincidence, and was informed that in her case it is not a very unfrequent occurrence. I likewise reported the circumstance to some scientific friends, but they had neither read nor heard of noise being the occasioning cause of sensation of colour.
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MUIRHEAD, H. Sound and Light. Nature 16, 43 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016043e0
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