Four lectures (1303, 1305, 1306, 2098), and it is the exact inverse of the wording Neville uses elsewhere for the man who does not know he is dreaming (M859, where the sleeper is the slave of his attention). Here the failure is put the other way round and more precisely: all meditation ends at last with the thinker, and he finds he is what he himself has conceived; the undisciplined man's attention is the servant of his vision rather than its master. The diagnostic clause is the one worth keeping - it is captured by the pressing rather than the important - which names what actually happens to attention when it is not governed: not idleness but capture by urgency. At 1303 the same observation is made of the dream state, where attention is usually the servant of vision and not its master, and the test he offers is whether a conviction can be produced there: a woman who answered a question about God correctly inside a dream is told that her conviction is in the very depths of her being, because that is the one place attention cannot be faked. PROVENANCE. Coined out of sequence at the request of the attach lane, which found the passages while attaching other motifs and reported that nothing in the catalogue held them. The canonical and the occurrences below were read in full before coining; the rest of the corpus-wide set was supplied by the lane and is attached, not read, so the occurrences here carry confidence 0.95 rather than 0.99.