Somewhere between waking and sleeping on our journey towards the unfathomable deep,
there comes a thin moment where we have one foot in the waking world and the other is in that other world where we relinquish conscious control.
Pausing here and straddled between two planets that drive one another like gears,
the attentive traveler will notice a narrow door only wide enough to sidle through.
This is the border of sleep, where imagination and reality are braided together,
a chasm in the crust of consciousness,
venting the hot pumice of imagery into the irresistible magma of narrative.
Welcome to episode 25 of Stories from the Borders of Sleep,
a weekly podcast of curious tales from bordersofsleep.com featuring original stories by your host,
Seymour Jacklin.
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Artwork is by Robin Trainor, production by Tim Wiles,
and the soundtrack for this week's episode is from the album Water and Sky by Kourosh Dini,
and that's available from magnatune.com so if you're ready to journey with me, then I shall begin.
The Wisdom of Things Found by Seymour Jacklin the sky was a diffuse, unbroken grey,
like an ethereal reflection of the sea, and close, like the ceiling of some vast cave.
It was windless and mild on the beach, and the sand was as soft as a carpet.
It was one of those days when the outdoors felt somehow indoors,
and Elijah smiled to himself because even