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Nabokov, Vladimir - Speak, Memory - Visions
Identifier
004055
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
I would only be guessing [not good for a website like this which tries to deal in facts], but some of what he describes appears almost like a past life
A description of the experience
They come and go, without the drowsy observer's participation, but are essentially different from dream pictures for he is still master of his senses.
They are often grotesque. I am pestered by roguish profiles, by some coarse featured and florid dwarf with a swelling nostril or ear. At times however, my photisms take on a rather soothing flou quality, and then I see - projected, as it were, upon the inside of the eyelid - grey figures walking between beehives, or small black parrots gradually vanishing among mountain snows, or a mauve remoteness melting beyond moving masts