What is happening to the narrator here? Use evidence from the text to support your answer From the images of gloom which thus haunted me in dreams, I select for record but only a single vision. I thought I was immersed in a cataleptic trance of more than usual duration and depth. Suddenly there came an icy hand upon my forehead, and an impatient gibbering voice whispered the word “arise!” Within my ear
I sat erect. The darkness was total. I could not see the figure of him who had awoken me. “Arise! Did I not bid you arise?” “And who,” I demanded, “are you”
-the premature burial by Edgar Allen Poe