While I was in bed with my eyes closed, there first appeared as clearly as in daylight, and more so, before my eyes-in fact at a distance from the right eye, a little higher-the numbers of a year 1-48. When this number disappeared, then farther off I saw the numbers 1-53/1-94, the numbers between 1 and 48, then between 1 and 53 and 1 and 94 were not observed. 15 was substituted once in place of 17, so that I did not know whether the numbers were 1548, 1553, 1594, or whether they were 1648, 1653, 1694, or 1748, 1753, 1794. After having seen these numbers clearly pictured, I saw a man, an ugly one, who immediately disappeared,