Good questions, Bill.
I’m not sure: if I could but dream my flights, I think I’d stay some good age, but haven’t had that one for some time now…
gravity - and time - that’s a neat mix there…
Doug
On Sep 9, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Do we age in dreams? As dreamers, I mean,
> forty, fifty, eighty years after experiencing
>
> our first dream, are we conscious, in a dream,
> of being older? Running, swimming, flying - upright
>
> or Superman-style - does it feel as effortless,
> as light as it used to? Or does gravity - and time -
>
> exact the same slowing price in prone night
> as it does in wakeful day? Don't know about you,
>
> but the stuff of my dreams, for decades: the grip
> the slip, the sense of sudden loss, remains
>
> unaffected by the march of time. Morpheus
> maintains my ageless dream noir.
>
> bw
>
Douglas Barbour
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