More specifically concerning: dreams
springes
26 March 2016, around 15.48.
Forgot Easter is tomorrow. A gaggle of families carried four outsize crosses (not sturdy enough to bear human weight, but strong enough for faith I dare say) in the direction of the river. A few minutes later, a fifth cross scurried down the sidewalk to catch up. Or so it seemed from the coffee shop. […]
oneiric
10 October 2022, around 6.39.
In the dream I was trying to buy a book on Samothrace at the local bookstore. I was supposed to meet someone there, but kept missing the streetcar stop and having to go around the entire loop again, as all the other nearby stops were closed; I ended up alighting some ways distant and returning […]
dreamer awake
20 April 2023, around 8.34.
Sed laboriosum est hoc institutum, & desidia quaedam ad consuetudinem vitae me reducit. Nec aliter quàm captivus, qui forte imaginariâ libertate fruebatur in somnis, cùm postea suspicari incipit se dormire, timet excitari, blandisque illusionibus lente connivet: sic sponte relabor in veteres opiniones, vereorque expergisci, ne placidae quieti laboriosa vigilia succedens, non in aliquâ luce, sed […]
lability
26 February 2024, around 14.17.
It is surely now time that our rulers should either realize this golden dream, in which they have been indulging themselves, perhaps, as well as the people; or that they should awake from it themselves, and endeavour to awaken the people. If the project cannot be completed, it ought to be given up. —Adam Smith […]
Adversaria (25)
30 April 2025, around 4.31.
‘Her psychic membrane was so permeable that she picked up on clues that lay far beneath the surface of daily life’ —James Hollis (Living with Borrowed Dust: Reflections on Life, Love, and Other Grievances, 42%) ‘Dream work is work, and it is a very uncertain forensic endeavor’ —James Hollis (Living with Borrowed Dust: Reflections on […]
surdus
19 June 2025, around 12.22.
Lastly, considering that the very thoughts we have while awake may also occur while we sleep without any of them being at that time true, I resolved to pretend that all the things that ever entered my mind were no more true than the illusions of my dreams. —Descartes (Discourse on the Method, trans. Cottingham […]
oneirocrite
6 September 2025, around 11.40.
Photograph by Armin T. Wegner, 1915 (via Wikimedia) Zareh Vorpouni’s novel The Candidate (meant in the academic rather than the political sense) is a somewhat messy book. Set in the Armenian refugee community in Paris in, perhaps, the 1920s (it could be somewhat later), it outlines the fallout of what the US government was, until […]