FORM AND
EXPERIENCE

THE FEAST

THE HYPNOPOMPIC STAGE

relating to the state existing between sleep and full waking, characterized by the persistence of dreamlike imagery.

 

Most of your dreams happen during the Rapid Eye Movement sleep. Once in a while you see a nightmare. But how is it so that we tend to re- member our nightmares way more often than our dreams? Is it because they immediately wake us up? And in immediately waking up do we skip the entire stage in which we forget our dreams? One may remember random images, short clips, or a story sometimes. Right after waking up you may try to force a train of thought on the dream you just had so to remember it, but even if that train breaks once- you don’t remember that dream anymore. Sometimes you might wake up just when the dream was getting interesting. For such scenarios you can try to go to sleep and get back in the dream, sometimes it’ll work, sometimes it won’t. The dreams one does remember have a basic form and a repetitive characteristic but are not very defined. One may enter a space that they have entered several times in their dreams before. These spaces may be defined by specif- ic repetitive characteristics, like bridges, arches, doorways, staircases, etc. These spaces may not follow the logics of a conventional space or may follow a logic of their own, yet they can be really familiar to the one dreaming.