Monday, August 11, 2008

Claude Monet Snow at Argenteuil painting

Claude Monet Snow at Argenteuil paintingClaude Monet Poplars on the Banks of the Epte paintingClaude Monet Mountains at l'Esterel painting
become their own as they dream it. Each dream may be shaped differently in each mind. And, as with us, the personality of the dreamer, the oneiric I, is often tenuous, strangely disguised, or unpredictably different from the daylight person. Very puzzling dreams or those with powerful emotional affect may be discussed on and off all day by the community, without the origin of the dream ever being mentioned.
But most dreams, as with us, are forgotten at waking. Dreams elude their dreamers on every plane.
It might seem to us that the Frin have very little psychic privacy; but they are protected by this common amnesia, as well as by doubt as to any particular dream's origin and by the obscurity of dream itself. Their dreams are truly common property. The sight of a red-and-black bird pecking at the ear of a bearded human head lying on a plate on a marble table and the rush of almost gleeful horror that accompanied it—did that come from Aunt Unia's sleep, or Uncle Tu's, or

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