ABSTRACT
Edmund Gurney, in his Phantasms of the Living, a source book cited often in the pages, used the term "Borderland" for a special group of dreams. These were the ones that lie in a sort of limbo between dreaming and waking visions. These are the experiences that come when the percipient himself is not quite sure whether he was awake, only half-awake, or asleep when the thing happened. That uncertainty, whether what was seen was a dream that came in sleep or whether it was some kind of apparition or hallucination seen with waking eyes, is what puts the following narratives into the Borderland. Whether dream or vision, this narrative of James Chaffin's will stands on an exceptionally firm basis of evidence. For that reason it is one of the most striking sign-posts pointing to the transcendent fact of human survival of bodily death. The story of the Chaffin will makes a good climax for this group of Borderland dreams.
