Nightmare

Newland talks about the psychic world and the physical world.

A guy is supposedly painting a woman who is sitting for her portrait. She is supposed to be sitting quietly but she talks constantly and moves head. The artist doesn't seem to notice, though.

She finally notices the artist has not looked at her once. She checks the portrait out and it's defnitely not her. It's obvious he has strong feelings for the woman in the portrait.

He's supposed to marry this woman in a few days. She looks at the painting and asks if the woman in it is her rival. She thinks he's been playing around on her. He tells the woman he's never seen the woman in the portrait before in his life.

This guy is some kind of painter's agent and he's upset because Paul, the painter, has 'insulted' one of his clients (probably the older woman at the start of the show.) He visits his financee and tells her he had been commissioned to do three different portraits and all three ended up of the girl in the first portrait.

The agent and another guy show up. Paul destroys a portrait of the woman he's been painting. The guy runs a nursing home (more likely a sanitarium) and suggest Paul needs to go there for a while.

The next scene is him in a car with his fiancee and he's directly her where to turn. This part seems a little unrealistic to me. I'm surprised she's getting in a car with him alone considering that the way he has been acting could be interpreted as he's losing his mind.

He goes to a house and knocks on the door. An old woman answers and when he comes in she seems to recognize him. Later a doctor tells Paul that the woman has been in mourning for forty years. He tells her that the guy she was supposed to marry was killed in 1916 during the WWI just before the wedding.

He finds a photo of the woman and her fiancee when they were young and the guy looks like Paul would have looked when he was younger.

Newland talks about how some people would interpret this is an example of reincarnation.

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