TURNING A CORNER (July 19, 2012)
I dreamt that I was with my beloved in a city that neither of us knew well. It looked like Copenhagen. We were walking around in search of interesting places. At some point she turned a corner while I was looking the other way. She could have been at most a step ahead of me, but there was no trace of her when I reached the corner. I could not see any door close to it, either. “This is impossible,” I remember thinking. Having walked around the street corner where we separated for a minute or two, I pulled out my mobile phone. “Where are you?” I wanted to write, but all sorts of funny things started happening with the phone. I could not get the message right. And so I woke up before I managed to send anything to my beloved. I checked the time on my mobile phone, which was next to my pillow, and decided that it was time to get up. As I was shuffling toward the bathroom, I kept revisiting my beloved’s disappearance. It was impossible in real life, all right, but it was perfectly possible in a dream. In a dream, turning a corner is enough for someone to vanish into thin air.