‘What is it? What is it?’ I exclaimed, still held down in bed by sleep, and stretched my arms upwards. Then I got up, still far from being conscious of the present, and with the feeling that I must thrust aside various people who were in my way, made the necessary gestures, and so at last reached the open window.
— Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks (tr. E. Kaiser and E. Wilkins)
Notes from a Room 