oneirodrift

/əˈnaɪrəˌdrɪft/nounVerified New

Also in: Traumdrift (Deutsch) · sueñoderiva (Español) · onéirodérive (Français)

The unmarked sliding of one dream scene into another, without transition, which the dreaming mind accepts as normal continuity.

Oneirodrift is why the kitchen becomes a ferry becomes a childhood classroom without anyone objecting. In waking life this would be a continuity error; in the dream it is the grammar. The drift is only visible from the shore of waking, and by then the current has stopped.

Etym. — Greek oneiro- (dream) + drift — the classical root marks it as a phenomenon of the dream-science register; the drifting is the mechanism.

Rel. — dreamseam · dreamgeography

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