At times it felt as though it were no longer an inhabitant of the body, but rather its more or less independent partner.

I was perfectly clear-headed and of insanity I experienced no symptoms.

Yet my mind, I use that term from lack of a better, was not entirely under my control.

For one thing, at night it appeared to wander far away, though whither it went and what it saw there I could never remember.
I record this because possibly it explains certain mysterious events, if they were events and not dreams, which shortly I must set out.

I spoke to Bickley about the matter.