"You will say now, of course, that I dreamed; but not so. What I
saw- what I heard- what I felt- what I thought- had about it nothing
of the unmistakable idiosyncrasy of the dream. All was rigorously
self-consistent. At first, doubting that I was really awake, I entered
into a series of tests, which soon convinced me that I really was.
Now, when one dreams, and, in the dream, suspects that he dreams,
the suspicion never fails to confirm itself, and the sleeper is almost
immediately aroused. Thus Novalis errs not in saying that 'we are near
waking when we dream that we dream.' Had the vision occurred to me
as I describe it, without my suspecting it as a dream, then a dream it
might absolutely have been, but, occurring as it did, and suspected
and tested as it was, I am forced to class it among other phenomena."
"In this I am not sure that you are wrong," observed Dr.
Templeton, "but proceed. You arose and descended into the city."
"I arose," continued Bedloe, regarding the Doctor with an air of
profound astonishment "I arose, as you say, and descended into the
city. On my way I fell in with an immense populace, crowding through
every avenue, all in the same direction, and exhibiting in every
action the wildest excitement.
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