ABSTRACT
Dreaming by means of a mouth is an archaic mode of awareness. The notion of dreaming in the mouth is informative about the nature of aesthetics. Mouth has an intriguing place in the evolution of awareness, since so far as sensation is concerned it appears to take on being without a history. There is no possible correlation of a mouth with a possibly loving gaze. Nonetheless, perhaps the experience of mouth as an aperture, whose shape one can explore by the movement of tongue, precedes the class of experience that comes into being with the loss of the umbilical cord. In correspondence with the conception of the mouth as a cave whose walls emanate dreams, or words, or babies, is the conception of mouth as an interior within the earth or mountain, say, in which the dead and the unborn exist in a netherworld and yearn for a tongue-magician to bring them to life.
