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.”