between states

when i was in college i made a dance called "collective unconscious". i was interested in psychology - had considered majoring in it (along with a dozen other things that i didn't pursue) and had been reading a couple of books by jung and freud at the time. i was fascinated by the idea that there were things we didn't know we knew - locked away under a layer of this thing called consciousness. even more fascinated still in this idea that the unconscious state was one we shared with others. connecting with people in a way that we could not do otherwise.

What is equally interesting to me is the transition from dreaming into waking from your dream- straddling the two worlds gives you access to both. the overlap is so brief but feels like a burst of enlightenment or something.

i fell asleep on the train this morning. while i don't remember what it was that i was dreaming about, i remember hearing someone saying "excuse me" to someone (not me) over and over again. i wondered why the words kept being repeated. it wasn't until i opened my eyes that i realized it was in fact precisely at me that the woman one seat over was directing her "excuse me". She was trying to get off the train and i was in her way.