In Other Words

I had another teaching dream last night. I was working on a chemistry lesson plan that started off with activation energy and wound up with the energy-entropy dynamic that underlies all life on earth. I awoke from a suffocation episode to find my face pressed into the pillow. Right! You have to breathe or entropy will get you. There may be some truth in dreams.

Writing is a waking dream,
groping through preconscious fog,
making sense of nonsense,
finding meaning,
choosing words in solitude.
And then the same idea surprises
as it all appears elsewhere
in other words.
Maybe that strange thought was true.

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Liminal Spaces, Your Brain's Secret Laboratory: Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Big Think