“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!” (Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss)
Was it a dream? Or wasn’t it?
Ever wake with that strange feeling? You wake and wonder if your dream is still going on? A discomfort gnaws and nags at you---maybe it wasn’t a dream after all? It seemed so real!
Sometimes those dreams are hard to shake off. A kind of “dream dust” settles on your reality and your sense of time. You find yourself in a kind of “liminal space,” unsure whether a part of your dream exists for real ….or not. Eventually the feeling fades, but the mystery of those moments remain.
That place in between sleeping and waking, that feeling that you’ve left dreams behind, but haven’t quite yet entered the realm of true wakefulness and reality, can be called a “liminal space.…