Disjunct

What if you had a dream that stopped being a dream and became real and then after awhile, when you had gotten used to this you suddenly woke up to discover that nothing more was left of it than if it really had been an unconscious thought in the night. And then you had to go on constantly correcting yourself. You would be forever trying to dim the memory of sensations felt with real fingers, to the less vivid ones of dream fingers. You would try to go back to the life you were living before the dream. You would try to tell yourself that all of the emotions, the love, the hatred, were just dream emotions, and weren’t really you. But the clarity, the intensity of it wouldn’t let you - you can’t rewrite your experiences, any more than you can un-experience something. And so the only thing you would be left with in the end would be to live out the contradiction, possessing the memory of solid, vivid experiences of real life, and the knowledge that they were nothing more than dreamed.