The Nightmare of a Doze

'I lay there, broad awake, feeling a great deal worse than i have ever done since,' he writes. 'Nothing was to be seen and nothing was to be heard, but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine.' He recalls waking up with queequegs pig an arm thrown round him. But at length all the past night's events soberly recurred one by one in fixed reality. And then i lay only alive to the comical predicament.