TheBanyanTree: Life Stories 66

[Mike Pingleton]

Be it comfort,cold comfort, or no comfort at all, you are not alone, Tobie.
My wife has similar dreams, I have learned over the years to pay attention
when she tells me about them, just as she has learned to tell me about them
as soon as she can.

The poet Muriel Rukeyser once said that the universe was made of stories,
not atoms. They're not making much progress any more at the sub-atomic
level; maybe stories, and the dream subset thereof, are like the particles
Heisenberg couldn't put his finger on. Maybe you can't pin down the when of
a dream when you already know the what.

I think I like the Rukeyser theory. To paraphrase the Immortal Detective, we
are the stuff dreams are made of.

-Mike

On 11/22/06, Tobie Shapiro <tobie at shpilchas.net> wrote:
>
> November 21, 200006
>        With that said, I have to say that I am
> psychic.  It's not anything I could do on
> purpose.  It happens when it happens.  Neither
> could I prevent it from happening, because it
> happens in my sleep, most of the time.  I  have
> premonitive dreams.  The dream will have a
> certain glow to it, an ethereal glow, a powerful
> one, and even in my sleep I will know that I'm
> having one of those dreams.  They are quite
> literal: no metaphors or wiggle room.  I will
> give examples.  I will.
>