ILLUSTRATIONS

FRONTIS.

Nabokov writing in bed

FIG. 1.

Title card of the experiment

FIG. 2.

Earliest plan for the second book of memoirs

FIG. 3.

Day one of the experiment

FIG. 4.

First precognitive dream

FIG. 5.

Proof of “reverse memory”?

FIG. 6.

“Things I detest”

FIG. 7.

A dream with his mother

FIG. 8.

A dream wafting from his old fiction?

FIG. 9.

A curious, persistent slip of the pen, taking the experiment back to the beginning

FIG. 10.

Record of his wife’s dream

FIG. 11.

His wife’s dream, closely resembling his own

FIG. 12.

“Three sterile nights in a row!”

FIG. 13.

Last day of the experiment

FIG. 14.

Title page of the 1951 diary

FIG. 15A.

A page from the 1951 diary

FIG. 15B.

“I ought to write on the sloppy production of dreams.”

FIG. 16.

An untender dream

FIG. 17.

Types of dreams

FIG. 18.

Three levels of comprehending Time

FIG. 19.

Sketch of a chess problem on the back of a dream record

FIG. 20.

“Curious features of my dreams.”