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(It might be added that this evening it had rained, and now the night was very hot and humid. The windows were open; from a neighbor’s house some distance away, we could hear a phonograph playing, the sound carrying clearly on the heavy air. Traffic noise also seemed much louder than usual. Jane, dictating, seemed to carry her head at an unusual angle, as though listening. Her delivery was by now very slow.)

(Break at 9:26. Jane was dissociated, she said, but not to much of a degree. The neighbor’s phonograph bothered her, she said, and so did the traffic noise. It was the first time she could remember that any outside influences had made themselves felt while she was dictating.

(End at 9:55. Jane was dissociated to some degree. The music from across the way had stopped sometime during the last delivery, but Jane said the traffic noise continued to bother her. She had been reading that exterior stimuli should be excluded during such sessions as we conduct, and supposed Seth was right in stating that she may have allowed herself to be bothered. Jane said she would try to avoid this pitfall in the future.