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| Birthday card as recollected |
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Birthday card as dreamed
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It is almost April's birthday and my parents say they will
send her a card from the UK. We check our postbox every day but the
card never arrives, much to her disappointment. An idea comes to me that
she might try and find out what has happened to the card, and maybe
what it looks like from within the clear dreaming condition. She says
she wants to try, and at 03:15 the following morning, her signal comes
to her. In the sequence that follows, she is accompanied by her
grandmother, and finds herself walking towards another block on our compound, but not
the one we live in. Outside the elevators, she discards a tissue in the
communal bin and as she does so, notices in among the other rubbish that there is an envelope with her name on. She retrieves it and takes it to a seat on the void deck. On
opening the envelope, she finds that the picture on the front of the
card is of a bee and notes the caption. Later that morning, she draws it
at the coffee table and I write home to ascertain if it is in any way similar to the one they sent earlier. My mother,
herself a talented artist, sends a sketch of her own recollection, and I
include both here for comparison.
