writing in a dream: a new poem
January 3, 2008
in the dream i was a man writing in a cafe.
this morning i could remember the words
i was writing i was sure i would always
remember the words i was writing
but this afternoon i have forgotten
them: they are lost in all the other words
of the day. this is what happens if you
only write down words in a dream. they must
be written down in this world too. they say
we cannot read or write in a dream but
in the last few weeks i have done both. try
it yourself write read remember your words
keep them: write them down in this world & that
the art predator–on the prowl awake or asleep
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art predator 
Thanks for the poetry.
I really enjoyed it.
i’m glad you enjoyed it!
what’s amazing is you read it and commented immediately after i posted it–and since i just wrote it it means you were the first person ever to read it–and what is even more wild to me is i don’t even know you!
Did you really think about it in your dreams Enjoyed it I backread alot of places to see where people have been. :)
i have a wild dream life and remember much of it!
I read and write in my dreams, too! Every once in a while I even write it down first thing in the waking world, but most of the time I forget right away…like the time I walked through endless underground catacombs to view the inscriptions on an ancient stone tablet…the words escaped me.
It’s interesting … this writing – the dream of writing and the dream of forgetting the writing and both of them as words dreaming.
Well it happnes too, you dream of something and then you forget it as you are unable to process it consciously.