Dream-e-scape

Dream-e-scape was written in a streak of twenty-six days, scarcely without looking back or trying to remember what had been written the day before. I wanted to try to capture the dream experience of incoherence in which everything is shifting and blurred together. Now we witness one image, now another – shocking, alluring, repellent, voluptuous, risible – totally without consistency or order.

Nothing in our education prepares us for a nightmare. And yet such an event may be more memorable than anything experienced in our rational lives. Is there anything coherent in a dreamscape? Yes, perhaps a few recurrent notes, an incipient melody or a monumental chord from which the sleeper may awaken enriched by the experience or desperate to escape from the memory of it. R. Murray Schafer