Thursday, December 1, 2022

Oneiros

I've been writing about dreams. Working on a story about them, or one, or something. It's certainly an interesting topic for fiction. A difficult one, as well. Dreams follow their own logic, which is why they call it "dream logic." You have to adjust your narrative sights.

(guppy swims across tablecloth)

2 comments:

susan said...

Good title.

I seem to recall Lewis Carroll did pretty well with dream
stories and so did H.P. Lovecraft for that matter.

I can see how it could be an interesting exploration.

Ben said...

Thank you. I don't speak Greek, but nice bits of it have floated into English.

Carroll and Lovecraft were polar opposites in religious belief (one had them, the other didn't) but I believe they both had fairly prim personal habits. So you don't have to go chasing opium dreams to address the subject.

Anyway, yeah, it is interesting.