Dreams and the Dreamer

The greenness and freshness of Petrovskyostrov were at first restful to his weary eyes. But soon these new pleasant sensations passed into morbid irritability. In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with detail that the dreamer could never have invented them in the waking state.