What Can Be Learned From Dreams? – Alice Notley

Dream is you, and Dream is not you. It does so much that you can't do. How dare you claim the making of your dreams? 'I dreamed that tiny people were souls.' Oh did you? You did that? Hah! Actually, you only witnessed it, or took part in the action. 

A dream is a vivid present without a recent past – how van that be?And the reality of a dream is a remembered one: you remember what it was like to be in it. You draw it out of a void. It "comes back to you". 

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