Reviewing his notes, Neville recounts a dream from the previous October in which he was teaching and glanced at his wristwatch to find it read 4:10; after continuing to speak for what felt like an hour, he checked again and it still read 4:10, leading him to believe the watch had stopped — only to wake and find it was not on his wrist at all, nor was it actually 4:10 in the morning. He offers the doubled reading within the dream as a "duplicate dream," citing the scriptural principle that a dream which repeats itself signals that the thing is fixed and will shortly come to pass.