dreamshard
/ˈdriːmˌʃɑːd/nounVerified NewAlso in: Traumscherbe (Deutsch) · sueñesquirla (Español) · rêveéclat (Français)
A single sharp fragment of a dream that survives waking — one image, one line, one face — with the rest of the night lost.
The dreamshard is what you carry out of the wreckage: a yellow staircase, a sentence in a language you almost speak. It cuts precisely because it is incomplete; the mind keeps turning it over, trying to reconstruct the vessel it came from. By evening it is usually gone too.
Etym. — dream + shard — the broken-pottery metaphor for dream recall; archaeology handles fragments the way mornings handle dreams.
Rel. — wakeerosion · dreamfossil · somnilith
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