Sleep Is Apt to Grow Confusion, and to Break Its Roles

When a man is asleep, he has in a circle around him the chain of the hours. But this ordered procession is apt to grow confused and break its ranks. And for me, it was enough if, in my own bed, my sleep was so heavy as completely to relax my consciousness,. then I lost all sense of place in which I had gone to sleep. When I awoke at midnight, not knowing where I was, I could not be sure at first who I was.