Chapter 3
As I have said, it was not immediately that these wild visions
began to hold their terrifying quality. Certainly, many persons
have dreamed intrinsically stranger things - things compounded of
unrelated scraps of daily life, pictures,and reading, and arranged
in fantastically novel forms by the unchecked caprices of
sleep.
For some time I accepted the visions as natural, even though I
had never before been an extravagant dreamer. Many of the vague
anomalies, I argued, must have come from trivial sources too
numerous to track down; while others seemed to reflect a common
text book knowledge of the plants and other conditions of the
primitive world of a hundred and fifty million years ago - the
world of the Permian or Triassic age.
In the course of some months, howeve
