Whispers of the Night

I have a strange relationship with dreams. Last night I woke at 4am and thought I saw some kind of burglar jump out the window, I must've still been dreaming. Sleep paralysis, they call it I think? That happens occasionally, I'll wake and see a grasshopper, which I find a grotesque creature lol

When I am only half asleep, I tend to lucid dream, I'll just consciously build scenes that I can see in my mind's eye. When heartbroken, my dreams were a torment. It's an amazing thing, the worlds we glimpse, fraught with haunted, unresolved emotion.

You know those empty screams in dreams, Frightening stuff. Think you would appreciate the novel, The House of Sleep, by Jonathan Coe my friend.

The House of Sleep rings a bell, there was this series on AMC that used that phrasing, I wonder if it was an adaptation of the novel. I'll look for it thank you.

I really like your term, "pillow second".  Sounds like millisecond, but much more interesting.  A second of dreaming feels like much longer when you're in a dream.  I've had some interesting revelations when half asleep and half awake!

Thank you. That moment on the edge of waking dreams can be extraordinary.

Indeed.  I had a vision and a message about a child that I lost during one of these times, but it wasn't sad - it was positive and affirming.  I wrote about her once.