There were many other things to keep me, but none of them had the least effect.

I could no more keep myself there than a man could sink himself in the Dead Sea, and so I had to come home.
"I feel a strong inclination to doze and slumber, and more and more in these slumbers the dim shadows that appear in my waking state become clearer, and my conversation is more real and pleasant to me.
I feel a double consciousness in this state, and think, 'Now, is not this real?
I will recollect it all, what I saw and what I said'; but it flies and is lost when I awake.

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