It is gently reassuring to be returning to the book of dreams after so long a break, for time means little in dreams. While Dunne's Experiment With Time seems slightly ridiculous now, dreams and time still fascinate.
Here is the dream.
This dream of lying in a room shared by a dozen or so amiable hamsters would be hardly worth recording except for the strange and indescribable sensations of 'lying' and 'crossing'.
Two of the hamsters had just been found in the book case eating my books and were given a severe telling off. I then lay on the floor, but the act of lying was neither a physical action or a mental state (Within the logic and sensation of dreams.); rather it was some inexplicable manifestation of 'lyingness' Almost as if the the thought had become something of its own; not concrete but much more real than simple imagining or dreaming. Similarly my old friend Bill came to visit my hamster filled room and had to cross something to reach it, and this was somehow expressed by a feeling of 'crossingness'.
It was a curious feeling never encountered in any other dream and quite beyond description.
I dreamed this dream on the day my father died.
Here is the dream.
This dream of lying in a room shared by a dozen or so amiable hamsters would be hardly worth recording except for the strange and indescribable sensations of 'lying' and 'crossing'.
Two of the hamsters had just been found in the book case eating my books and were given a severe telling off. I then lay on the floor, but the act of lying was neither a physical action or a mental state (Within the logic and sensation of dreams.); rather it was some inexplicable manifestation of 'lyingness' Almost as if the the thought had become something of its own; not concrete but much more real than simple imagining or dreaming. Similarly my old friend Bill came to visit my hamster filled room and had to cross something to reach it, and this was somehow expressed by a feeling of 'crossingness'.
It was a curious feeling never encountered in any other dream and quite beyond description.
I dreamed this dream on the day my father died.