ABSTRACT
In the Congo, in the Lingala language, the word lóbí means “a day from this time,” yesterday or tomorrow, depending on the verb used. The word’s poetic resemblance to dreamscaping is uncanny, for the notion of time as fluid can be healing for a mourner in liminal time and place, in between what was and will be. The “adjacent day” in dreamscaping can mean any point in the past when a hopeful or satisfying memory emerges in vivid detail. These memories can feel “like it was yesterday;” or be experienced as a felt sense that is fleeting but largely satisfying, as if in a dream. If confabulated—that is, if the dreamscape is a mash-up of real objects, places, pets or people appropriated from points in the past and present—the adjacent day can be a composite of several excellent yesterdays or imagined tomorrows.
