As all this indicates, dreams are of many classes: those of the lowest type, which we have explained as due to bad physiological conditions in the animal-man; those which are readily explainable as distorted reflections of waking actions, often based on some stray thought or suggestion of the day and then comparable to post-hypnotic suggestions.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
It suggests another hypothesis, in the light of which all the circumstances are explainable.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon
So much seemed clear; at least it furnished a hypothesis in the light of which the strange events of the night before were explainable.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon