Thus, if salt water is tasted and the patient is _told_ that it is beer, he complains that it is sour.
In being thus in a certain rapport, though so limited and unintelligent a rapport, with the external world, the mind of the hypnotized patient would appear to be nearer the condition of waking illusion than is the mind of the dreamer.

It must be remembered, however, and this is the second point of difference between dreaming and hypnotism, that the hypnotized subject tends _to act out_ his hallucinations.

His quasi-percepts are wont to transform themselves into actions with a degree of force of which we see no traces in ordinary sleep.

Why there should be this greater activity of the motor organs in the one condition than in the other, seems to be a point as yet unexplained.

All sense-impressions and percepts are doubtless accompanied by some degree of impulse to movement, though, for some reason or another, in natural and healthy sleep these impulses are restricted to the stage of faint nascent stirrings of motor activity which hardly betray themselves externally.