Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1937
Nishikanta and Jyoti say, about my recent poems, that there is much improvement. They’re more cogent, harmonious and still retain my originality and surrealism too.
They are more cogent and harmonious; there is also plenty of individuality, fine images, lines and phrases. But the surrealistic audacity of phrase and image is in abeyance. My suggestion is that it has to come back without the surrealism and with this greater clarity and harmony and more perfect building. That’s why I said “transition”.
I say, there’s a fellow in this world who says that besides occasional emissions of normal and orthodox kind with dreams, he gets almost daily slight discharges without dream in light sleep (day sleep or morning sleep renewed after waking) and there are “internal” discharges which don’t come out until there is (after some days, I believe) a proper discharge. This he supposes due to a liquification of the semen due to former bad habits. When there 
are these internal discharges his head becomes empty and giddy, and he expects if it goes on there will be no head left – or at least nothing inside it. Now I have heard of internal haemorrhage but not of internal discharges which seems self-contradictory in itself as a phrase. I can understand habitual loss of semen or weakness in retention due to past misuse, but what is this? Does your medical science shed any light? have you had any experience in treatment of such things so as to give me a direction for this distressed traveller towards headlessness? What?