Answering a question about the point between death and sleep, Neville describes from his own experience being 'out' — awake, named, able to reason and argue with people, aware things are not normal, wondering whether he is dreaming or dead, and finally struggling terrifically to tear himself awake back onto the bed in this world.
Date (happened)
before 1964
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [531735] belong to telling lecture nids [1160]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1964 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1964 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 21 April 1964
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1964 to before 1964-04-21.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1160 (certain delivery 1964-04-21); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1964`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1964-04-21 on nid 1160 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
before 21 April 1964
bound · probable
Reasoning
The event is grammatically prior to its recounting in the passage. Node 1160 has an uncorroborated legacy delivery date of 1964-04-21, so the resulting before bound is probable.
Sources
Source
- The Mystery Hidden for Ages ¶46 (You’ll feel yourself tearing yourself apart to wake from this very, very real state to find yourself once more on the bed in this world.)