Chapter 4
I continued, however, to keep a careful record of the outré
dreams which crowded upon me so thickly and vividly. Such a record,
I argued, was of genuine value as a psychological document. The
glimpses still seemed damnably like memories, though I fought off
this impression with a goodly measure of success.
In writing, I treated the phantasmata as things seen; but at all
other times I brushed them aside like any gossamer illusions of the
night. I had never mentioned such matters in common conversation;
though reports of them, filtering out as such things will, had
aroused sundry rumors regarding my mental health. It is amusing to
reflect that these rumors were confined wholly to laymen, without a
single champion among physicians or psychologists.
Of my visions after 1
