twilight-dawn

Updated: June 28, 2025

I say imperfect, because it is only a limited number of persons whom the eye or the passes of the mesmerist can effect; and by such means, unaided by other means, it is rarely indeed that the magnetic sleep advances beyond the first vague shadowy twilight-dawn of that condition to which only in its fuller developments I would apply the name of 'trance. But still trance is as essential a condition of being as sleep or as waking, having privileges peculiar to itself.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - A Strange Story — Volume 03

I say imperfect, because it is only a limited number of persons whom the eye or the passes of the mesmerist can effect; and by such means, unaided by other means, it is rarely indeed that the magnetic sleep advances beyond the first vague shadowy twilight-dawn of that condition to which only in its fuller developments I would apply the name of 'trance. But still trance is as essential a condition of being as sleep or as waking, having privileges peculiar to itself.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - A Strange Story — Complete