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
- before 1916
- before 1959
- before 13 November 1959
Place
Persons
Told / reported
- 14 April 1967
- 13 November 1959
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…)