living by the nocturnal glow of my dream life has proved rich, beguiling, instructive; it has given me ample occasion to question the nature of time, riddled as my dreams have been through the years with prognosticating encounters and apprehensions; but even these hints of the uncanny have not made up the most miraculous bounty of all this interrupted sleep. My dreams have taught me much about myself. I’m not sure I could sum up either the benefit or the challenge any better than Montaigne does in “Of Experience”: I take it for true that dreams are honest reflections of our inclinations; but
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