dreamcustoms

/ˈdriːmˌkʌstəmz/nounVerified New

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The checkpoint at waking where the goods of the dream are declared, examined, and almost always confiscated.

Dreamcustoms is why the dream's treasure turns to nonsense in the telling: the gold becomes a bus ticket, the prophecy becomes a grocery list. The officers are thorough and humorless, and the duty-free allowance is one image, if you are lucky.

Etym. — dream + customs — the border-control metaphor does work no phrase does: customs is precisely the institution that confiscates what cannot be declared.

Rel. — dreamsmuggling · wakeborder · somnigrant

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