text:  Certainly in this dream I felt great _surprise_ and that the faculty of reason was not suspended is apparent nay perhaps it was quickened in this instance for I doubt if I had really seen the praeternatural darkness whether I should so readily have thought of consulting an almanack or referring to a barometer; I should certainly have gone to my friend N---- for I was in the frequent habit of appealing to him on any subject of natural philosophy on which I might be desirous to be fully instructed