dreamsmuggling
/ˈdriːmˌsmʌɡlɪŋ/nounVerified NewAlso in: Traumschmuggel (Deutsch) · sueñocontrabando (Español) · rêvecontrebande (Français)
The attempt to carry a dream across the border of waking intact, before the customs of the day confiscate it.
Dreamsmuggling is the desperate morning rehearsal — eyes still closed, repeating the plot, hiding the images under the tongue of ordinary language. It almost always fails: the contraband dissolves at the checkpoint of the first sentence spoken aloud. The successful smugglers are called writers, and they are rare.
Etym. — dream + smuggling — the border-crossing metaphor condenses a whole theory of dream recall into one act; no short phrase carries it.
Rel. — dreamcustoms · wakeborder · somnigrant
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