…a very interesting example of this storytelling faculty existing definitely on the unconscious or preconscious level in the case of Robert Louis Stevenson, who tells us in his book, Across the Plains, that all his short stories were provided for him by his…

…which we will describe later. But in certain cases, it occurs spontaneously. The most famous of these cases is that of Robert Louis Stevenson, who describes in a chapter of Across the Plains how he got the material for all his stories. He either saw…