Date (happened)
  • before 1916
    "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)
  • before 1959 (possible)
    qualifying source passages 529340; telling lecture nids 1066
  • before 13 November 1959
    telling lecture nid 1066, certain delivery 1959-11-13
Told / reported
  • 14 April 1967
    Down to the Sea in Ships (nid 1276), telling 1276-7, told 1967-04-14
  • 13 November 1959
    Esau and Jacob (nid 1066), telling 1066-13, told 1959-11-13
Persons
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.