Transcription:

My dreams were the immediate and proximate
cause of my acutest suffering. The sense
of space, and in the end, the sense of time,
were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes,
&c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the
bodily eye is not fitted to conceive. Space swelled,
and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
I sometimes seemed to have lived for
70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes
had feelings representative of a millennium
passed in that time.
 —Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey, “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,” in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings, ed. Barry Milligan (London: Penguin, 2003), adapted from 74–76.