In the recurring dream everything has already fallen down, and I’m underneath. I’m crawling, sometimes for days, under the rubble. And as I crawl I realize that this one was the Big One. It was the earthquake that shook the whole world, and every single thing was destroyed. But this isn’t the scary part. That part always comes right before I wake up. I am crawling and then suddenly I remember: the earthquake happened years ago. This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming something else. Miranda July
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In a recurring dream, everything is already falling down. There is no shock or surprise that it has fallen down. The dreamer is trapped inside of this world that is falling down around him. As he crawls through the rubble, he realizes that this time it may be the last time he ever sees his family and friends.

In this moment of despair, he begins to realize that the only reason he had been crawling through the rubble was because of a recurring dream. The dreams have been so convincing that they have been more real than reality and he feels like he has finally managed to wake up from this dream and find out that it was all just a dream.

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

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