J.S.Atherton, in a 1965 lecture, 'The Identity of the Sleeper', suggested that the dreamer of "Finnegans Wake" was the Universal Mind: 'As I see FW it is everyone’s dream, the dream of all the living and the dead. Many puzzling features become clear if this is accepted. Obviously we will hear many foreign languages...To my mind, the most revealing statement Joyce ever made about his work was: 'Really it is not I who am writing this crazy book. It is you, and you, and you, and that man over there, and that girl at the next table.' This is stressed, once you start looking for it, in the Wake itself. It is 'us.' who are brought back to 'Howth Castle and Environs' in the third line of the book. The washerwoman says: 'of course, we all know Anna Livia'. It is easy to miss the 'we'. Chapter 2 has 'we are back' in line 3. In fact all the first five chapters use “us” or “we” by the ninth line at the latest—and the sixth chapter ends 'Semus sumus.' We are Shem. All of us...It is the universal mind which Joyce assumes as the identity of the dreamer; he, of course, is writing it all down but everyone else contributes.'