Dream Source, Dream Process

From Richard Howard, "Oracles" in No Traveller.

       but who knows how such décor,
queer as it is, affects us? Between
       "it came to me in a dream"
and "I dreamed" lie ages of the world,
       but which is truer: spirits-
who-send-dreams or an-ego-that-dreams?
       We are not awake because
we have done away with the dream but
       only when we have swallowed
the dream once more, and digested it. . . .

interesting oneiric take on interior design

And so for day 1425
07.11.2010

Oneiric Composition

The description of dream reminds one of the structure of story.

People think dreams aren't real because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes ...

Neil Gaiman. Sandman.

I like how puns and memories are yoked together. I provides an image of language as a vast random access device.

And so for day 308
18.10.2007