399. 'My dream was made for me as your dream is made for you.'
'It is a funny dream, with an exact sense of humor. It fits my brain like a glove fits a hand; it fits my life. A dream is never off the rack. A dream is always sewn with your exact dimensions in mind, your humor, your obsessions. A dream fits.
When I began to study my dreams closely, I noticed how exquisitely made they are, how difficult to communicate that exquisite beauty to another because in most dreams the exquisite is idiosyncratic. Each dream invents its own beautiful language, and something always gets lost in translation. My dream was made for me as your dream is made for you.
A dream provides an exact tincture of the soul, a strong whiff - ammonia or perfume - to wake us from a faint-hearted life.'
- Rodger Kamenetz, The History of Last Night's Dream
