Just as visceral senses, feelings and emotions ‘don’t fit’ into language (they have greater and different kinds of dimensionality), dreaming experience is similarly excluded from our common waking minds. The mind with which we dream is profoundly different from that mind with which we may reflect upon dreaming…

Yet even while we wake, this other mind (might it not be many minds, somehow harmonizing?) is not entirely absent. Perhaps it is involved in resolving the relative chaos of waking consciousness into some semblance of interior coherence… among other activities.

In both cases the origin doesn’t fit into the expressions it produces. But in the former case, fixed representations are involved. Symbols. In the latter, however, it is a combination of habit, context, canalization and other ingredients… that significantly inhibit the possibility of the dreaming mind emerging into waking consciousness.

I have long been fascinated by the possibility of the opposite of lucid dreaming… lucid waking. A situation in which the dreaming mind is present »with the waking mind — without collapsing the waking world into dreaming. And I have experience of this… rare and peculiar as it usually is. At the same time, this is always the case. Without the presence of some aspects of the mind(s) of dreaming… I suspect our experience would become rather mechanical. Deserted. Devoid of both meaning and presence…