When one night I dreamt’ I was sleeping
My eyes shut, my heart barely beating.
I lay, and lay reclined and reposed,
In depths nocturnal. In sleep, I supposed!
Then on and on, I lay again
Waiting for the dawns refrain.
Till it struck me through my calm
I had missed my stark alarm!
But on I lay, as one with my bed,
And dreamt’ I slept.
Or was I dead?
An neat evocation of that confused state when
the mind plays tricks...something, I think, many of us will recognise.
<Deleted User> (10123)
Tue 27th Mar 2012 12:47
Is there a defined meaning to dreaming about dreaming? And is it more significant when placed awake in couplets? Most enjoyable, ta muchly, Nick.
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Yvonne Brunton
Wed 28th Mar 2012 00:58
Ah yes I so recognise this!
How come I sleep soundly up to and even through the alarm on workdays but am awake at the crack of dawn on non-workdays and nothing can help me go back to sleep?
I like the concept of 'dreaming I was sleeping'
Nice one!