obligation. Generally he shows evidence of a radical inner change in personality soon after the vision experience: a remission of old and chronic physical com- plaints, a more active and purposeful way of life, greater confidence in inter- personal relations, the dropping of deep-seated habits like alcoholism. Hence we may call these visions “personality transformation dreams.” Where there is no vision (as with John Wesley), there occurs a similarly brief and dramatic moment of insight, revelation, or inspiration, which functions in most respects like the vision in being the occasion of a new synthesis of values and meanings.