Recollection (n.) mends a dream without asking: even the most truth-loving man cannot tell a remarkable dream without embellishment, so strong is the mind's urge to see everything connectedly.
Recollection (n.) can light a whole network at once from a key-phrase — a few bars of Figaro — though no single memory enters consciousness first.
Recollection (n.) is a little regression that stops at the memory-image; only dream and hallucination push on to full sensory vividness.
Recollection (n.) almost never cures without feeling; the memory must return with its affect.
Recollection (n.) is questioning the patient about the causes of his illness, and it fails because patients cannot see, or will not say, what made them ill.