1460. THE SIGNIFICATION OF WHAT IS TO HAPPEN CONCERNING THE INTERIOR AND MORE INTERIOR DOCTRINE OF MAN It was first represented in my sleep that I had been imprisoned and had escaped from prison. Then I awakened. Persecuting spirits were following someone, as if it were I; I neither saw nor perceived that it was I. But they were shouting that now they have him, now they have not. He was in flight and others, thinking it was I, were watching as to whether they should follow him. When I became awake and did not perceive this representation, it appeared that it was they who were asleep and remained so. At last they overtook him and shouted that he was caught. Then that spirit came to me.