Stretched out on my divan, my head was very low.

I raised it to light a cigarette, and let it fall back immediately.

This attitude is particularly favourable to hallucinations.

It is sometimes enough to lie down with one's head thrown back to see and to hear imaginary shapes and sounds.
That is why I advise you, my child, to sleep with a bolster and a fat pillow." She began to laugh.
"As mamma does--majestically!" Then, flitting off to another idea: "Tell me; Socrates, how comes it that you saw this sordid individual rather than another?
You had hired a donkey from him, and you were no longer thinking of him.

And yet he came.