dreamseam

/ˈdriːmˌsiːm/nounVerified New

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The visible join where two dreams were stitched together, noticeable only in the telling.

The dreamseam shows when the narrative changes thread: "and then suddenly I was at work, but the work was also the wedding." The dreaming mind never sees the seam; it takes the garment for a single piece. Waking inspection finds the stitching everywhere.

Etym. — dream + seam — the tailoring metaphor for dream continuity; a seam is exactly a join that pretends to be a surface.

Rel. — oneirodrift · dreamgeography

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