2 ( >0 Shadowings 



seem to retain the yellow glow of lamps that 

 once illuminated them. 



A queer fact is that I never see the entire text 

 of a page at once, though I see the whole page 

 itself plainly. The text rises, or seems to rise, 

 to the surface of the paper as I gaze, and fades 

 out almost immediately after having been read. 

 By a simple effort of will, I can recall the 

 vanished sentences to the page; but they do 

 not come back in the same form as before : they 

 seem to have been oddly revised during the 

 interval. Never can I coax even one fugitive 

 line to reproduce itself exactly as it read at 

 first. But I can always force something to re- 

 turn; and this something remains sharply dis- 

 tinct during perusal. Then it turns faint grey, 

 and appears to sink as through thick milk 

 backward out of sight. 



By regularly taking care to write down, imme- 

 diately upon awakening, whatever 1 could remem- 

 ber reading in the dream-book, I found myself 

 able last year to reproduce portions of the text. 

 But the order in which I now present these 

 fragments is not at all the order in which I 

 recovered them. If they seem to have any inter- 



