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steepholm ([personal profile] steepholm) wrote2012-09-02 12:18 pm

Bequeathing Dreams

Kath Langrish writes here of an interesting case of an "inherited" dream.

I suppose the key question, as far as the inherited aspect is concerned, is whether the dream really is confined to her family. Maybe many people have a variant on this dream, and it's just that Kath's family is sensitized to it by family tradition? I don't remember having it myself, at any rate.

Do you?

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2012-09-02 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I had something like that as a child- only it wasn't a dream but something that came to me when I was drifting off. First I'd see a perfectly smooth white disc- like bone china or porcelain- and then- I knew it was coming but could do nothing to stop it- the disc would be corrupted with a mesh of fine hairline cracks- like a dirty spider's web. It felt horrid.

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2012-09-02 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Kath's daughter also reported the phenomenon when she was half awake. It sounds very similar.