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From DOn Johnson,
I would ADD TO Jansy's comments that during his Swiss years
Nabokov kept a dreambook in which he logged his dreams in an efforts
to find evidence of precognition and the nature of time. DN has used
some of these descriptions in talks, but I don't recall whether the
information made its way into print.
Best, Don
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EDNote: the dream notes cover about three months of almost nightly
dreams; they were sparked by J.W. Dunne's An Experiment with Time,
as B.Boyd's American Years also describes.
The notes are in the Berg Collection, NYPL, non-restricted.
Jansy <jansy@AETERN.US>:
> Picking up a book in the furthest corner of a book-case, I came
upon
> "The Oxford Book of Dreams", chosen by Stephen Brooke for the
> Oxford University Press, 1983.
>
> Not only was I surprised to find VN quoted in the Book of Dreams,
> but to see that there were four references to dreams related by
him
> on pages 2, 45-6, 206-7, 243. With the exception of the first, all
> the others came from "Lolita". . . . .