wakeerosion
/ˈweɪk ɪˈrəʊʒən/nounVerified NewAlso in: Wacherosion (Deutsch) · sueñopérdida (Español) · éveilérosion (Français)
The rapid loss of dream detail in the first minutes of waking, as if the night's text were written in water-soluble ink.
Wakeerosion is measurable: at zero minutes the dream is a country; at five it is a coastline; at ten, a rumor. The tragedy is that the erosion feels like remembering — each pass smooths the stone a little more until nothing is left to smooth.
Etym. — wake + erosion — the geological process applied to the exact window in which dreams are lost; precise, observable, unnamed.
Rel. — dreamshard · somnilith · oneiroclasm
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