Child Neville repeatedly becomes both ocean and wave

As a small boy, for several years, he had a recurring monthly experience he could feel coming all day: falling asleep he became both the ocean and the wave, tossing himself up into the skies in terror and catching himself again; he would sit up in the family dormitory to avoid it but always fell asleep from exhaustion.
Date (happened)
before 1916
unresolved
  1. before 1916 stated · preferred
    Source Down to the Sea in Ships ¶39"when I was a child … Certainly I was not eleven when it began to happen", told in Down to the Sea in Ships (nid 1276)
  2. before 1959 bound · possible
    Source Esau and Jacob ¶24qualifying source passages 529340; telling lecture nids 1066
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [529340] belong to telling lecture nids [1066]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1959 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1959 is the MIN across telling lectures.
  3. before 13 November 1959 bound
    Source Esau and Jacobtelling lecture nid 1066, certain delivery 1959-11-13
    Why Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1959 to before 1959-11-13.
    Reasoning L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1066 (certain delivery 1959-11-13); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1959`, 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 1959-11-13 on nid 1066 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim, and MIN was taken across this event's 2 certain told dates. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
Place
Persons
Told / reported
  1. 14 April 1967 stated
    Source Down to the Sea in ShipsDown to the Sea in Ships (nid 1276), telling 1276-7, told 1967-04-14
  2. 13 November 1959 stated
    Source Esau and JacobEsau and Jacob (nid 1066), telling 1066-13, told 1959-11-13
Sources

Source

  • Down to the Sea in Ships ¶39 (For then I became the ocean that night…not only the ocean, I also became the wave. As the ocean, I tossed myself, the wave, and as the wave I was frightened to death; then I came down upon myself, the ocean, embraced in his loving arms.)
  • Esau and Jacob ¶24 (How small he is I know, for the infinite ocean tossed me on its back and I know it did not care. It was doing it for a purpose; I was tossed all over its infinity. I was afraid to go to sleep when I sensed the approach of these nights, and then when I cl…)