We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.

Arthur Machen
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The idea of the dream world and the nightmare world that we experience in our waking life is a common theme in literature. In the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, we find his own interpretation of this idea. He says, “We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can’t avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.”

Source: The Terror

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