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Lovecraft, H P - At the Mountains of Madness
Identifier
015483
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
"It was the utter, objective embodiment of the fantastic novelist’s ‘thing that should not be’; and its nearest comprehensible analogue is a vast, onrushing subway train as one sees it from a station platform—the great black front looming colossally out of infinite subterraneous distance, constellated with strangely coloured lights and filling the prodigious burrow as a piston fills a cylinder."
—At the Mountains of Madness
The source of the experience
Lovecraft, H PConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Nutritional deprivationSleep deprivation, insomnia and mental exhaustion
Suppressions
Dreaming and lucid dreamingNight terrors