oneiroclasm
/əˈnaɪrəklæzəm/nounVerified NewAlso in: Oneiroklasmus (Deutsch) · oniroclasto (Español) · onéiroclasme (Français)
The shattering of a dream at the moment of waking — the iconoclasm of the alarm.
Oneiroclasm is the specific violence of the loud waking: the dream does not fade, it breaks, and the pieces are not recoverable. Natural waking erodes; oneiroclasm demolishes. The dreamer is left holding the handle of something that was, a second ago, a whole world.
Etym. — Greek oneiro- (dream) + -clasm (breaking, as in iconoclasm) — the established pattern of image-breaking applied to the night's images.
Rel. — wakeerosion
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