human
Other nights I would feel a sense of oppression, ringing in ears, a sensation of perceiving something very small, which, gradually at first, and then rapidly, assumed enormous proportions and vast whirling speed, and which, I imagined, whirled me off with it--a buzzing in my ears, probably. Then would I feel that animals--rats--would creep over me and press heavily upon me, and I could neither move hand nor foot, nor speak.