ABSTRACT
Fleeing into a daydream is an act which we can open ourselves to when the mood catches us. We can prepare ourselves to some extent and hope for its visitation, but we cannot force it into action. Merleau-Ponty’s description of willing oneself to sleep is useful when thinking of the process of moving into a daydream. While day-dreaming, we suspend our relation with the world and thus with time; ‘details grow dim and all picturesqueness fades’. While we are daydreaming, we are never completely gone, we can always return. ‘The sleeper is never completely enclosed in himself, never fully asleep, and the patient is never absolutely cut off from the inter-subjective world’. The beauty of the visions that inhabit author dream world touches her, and she sense their presence in everyday echoes as they accumulate in her real world, which is often a little duller, louder, and smellier.
