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▼ UR1 Section 3: Session 699 May 22, 1974 7/42 (17%) photograph dream snapshots waking picture
– The "Unknown" Reality: Volume One
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Section 3: The Private Probable Man, The Private Probable Woman, The Species in Probabilities, And Blueprints for Realities
– Session 699: The “Living Photography of Dreams”
– Session 699 May 22, 1974 9:20 P.M. Wednesday

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1. Seth’s evocative material on dream images reminded me of an equally evocative poem about the dreaming self that Jane wrote in 1965, a year and a half or so after the sessions began. I’ve always wanted to see the poem published; I think it very rich in both subject matter and visual content.

My Dreaming Self

My dreaming self
Looked in the window
And saw me on the bed.
Moonlight filled
My sleeping skull.
I lay nude and still.

My dreaming self
Came in
And walked about.
I felt as if doorknobs turned,
Opening rooms up
In my head.

My dreaming self
Had eyes like keys
That glinted in the dark.
There was no closet
Within my bones
That they could not unlock.

My dreaming self
Walked through
The framework of my soul.
He switched lights on as he passed.
Outside the night
Was black and cold.

My dreaming self
Lay on the bed.
I stood aside with awe.
“Why, both of us are one,”
I said. He said,
“I thought you knew.

[... 6 paragraphs ...]

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