Corridor
Dreamed 1996/12/23 by Barbara Heninger
The corridor is white or grey, and quiet.
The doors array themselves in rows before me, beside me, a nested labyrinth of mazeways. I hear muffled music or voices. I have been inside some of those rooms but I do not know how to get back in. I am already in something else: the corridor. In a moment, someone is going to come out of a door. If it is my husband, he will be wearing a rope
If it is my lover, he will be wearing kaleidoscope glasses
If it is my daughter, her heart will be wearing a door
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For years I assumed that the corridor with many doors, each opening into a different dream world (often different dreamers' minds) was a common dream, a convenient image for shared dreaming. It crops up in fiction--I first saw it at age ten, in Andre Norton's Ordeal in Otherwhere. It's explored in detail in Kirsten Gier's trilogy Dream a little Dream of Me; Dream On; and Just Dreaming. It even shows up in the My Little Pony world, in a spinoff comic, Friends Forever, v.5: Princess Luna and Discord.
And yet in a lifetime of dreamwork, including hundreds of apparent telepathic/shared dreams, I've never walked that corridor once. Barbara's is the only actual dream of it that I've ever seen.
Source: World World by Barbara Heninger, (1996; p.30-31)
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