ABSTRACT
The commonest experience of depersonalization occurs when a physical trauma changes our habitual sense of psycho-somatic coherence and we painfully realize that we are living in a place that is no longer familiar and where we have no command of the language. Ada's dream is trying to represent in a poetic manner the distress which was afflicting her at that time, concerning her fear that she had lost her hearing after a serious ear infection. Suddenly Ada could no longer hear her own voice, and the voices of others sounded distant and metallic. In the dream Ada's act of filming the scene highlights how important it can be that we remain able to construct a continuous film of meaning which defends us against possible traumas. The ability to dream, which we all have to a greater or lesser degree, makes us all poets.
