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was far more important, obtained a clue to its repetition. He dreamed that he was standing on the pavement outside his home, viewing the sunlit scene which he knew well, when, as he was about to re-enter the house, he noticed that the paving-stones were not set as he remembered them. "Then," he writes, "the solution flashed on me: though this glorious summer morning seemed as real as real could be, I was dreaming! "With the realization of this fact, the quality of the dream changed in a manner very difficult to convey to one who has not had this experience. Instantly the vividness of life increased a hundredfold. Never had sea and sky and trees shone with such glamorous beauty, even the commonplace houses seemed alive and mystically beautiful. Never had I felt so absolutely well, so clear-brained, so divinely powerful, so inexpressibly free! The sensation was exquisite beyond words, but it lasted only a few moments, and I awoke.... Though I did not realize it at the time, I think this first experience was a true projection, and that I was actually functioning outside my physical vehicle." He explains how gradually he evolved the conviction that the key to projection was the discovery in a dream that he was dreaming while still holding waking consciousness at bay, and that this discovery mostly came about by detecting some incongruity in the dream. He describes this condition of dreaming-alertness as a Dream of Knowledge, and it could only be achieved by keeping the critical faculty alert, which proved to be a very difficult business. However, for a long time he made all his projections by the use of the Dream, but in these early flights, though they enabled him to disregard gravity and to pass through solid walls, he could only stay out of the body for a