Dream vision {Geoffrey Chaucer}:
And in my slepe I mette, as I lay,
How African, right in that selfe aray
That Scipioun him saw before that tyde
Was comen, and stood right at my beddes syde
Poetic vision {Blake}:
And by came an angel, who had a bright key, And he opened the coffins, and set them all free
Narcotic vision {Thomas De Quincey}:
A theatre seemed suddenly opened and lighted up within my brain, which presented nightly spectacles of more than earthly splendour.
Hallucination {Shakespeare}:
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?
Epileptic vision {Dostoyevsky}:
His brain seemed to catch fire at brief moments...His sensation of being alive and his awareness increased tenfold at those moments which flashed by like lightning. His mind and heart were flooded by a dazzling light.
And in my slepe I mette, as I lay,
How African, right in that selfe aray
That Scipioun him saw before that tyde
Was comen, and stood right at my beddes syde
Poetic vision {Blake}:
And by came an angel, who had a bright key, And he opened the coffins, and set them all free
Narcotic vision {Thomas De Quincey}:
A theatre seemed suddenly opened and lighted up within my brain, which presented nightly spectacles of more than earthly splendour.
Hallucination {Shakespeare}:
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?
Epileptic vision {Dostoyevsky}:
His brain seemed to catch fire at brief moments...His sensation of being alive and his awareness increased tenfold at those moments which flashed by like lightning. His mind and heart were flooded by a dazzling light.
( Peter Mendelsund )
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