ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the dream-like atmosphere of a funeral reveals the political possibilities generated from 'waking up' in the midst of concentrated 'peak' moments. It discusses the broader conceptualisation of 'land' can be explored in the context of the funeral as a 'public event', an event which, in its own structure, already enacts or performs urra uvie in a context of significant political flux. The chapter seeks to map out the process by which the heightened awareness of 'self' possible in oneiric events becomes historical. It reveals the way dreaming experience relates to social process and to the creative capacities and insights that spur political vision. The emotive power of a given dream is sometimes only realised in hindsight. Within the sentient landscape that encompasses both dream-time and emergent waking reality, self- and group-knowledge and positionality are contingent upon the ongoing, collective process of interpreting the signs encountered throughout a person's life.
