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 24 of Stories from the Borders of Sleep.
It's 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 Traynor and production is by Tim Wiles,
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So if you're ready to journey with me,
then I shall begin Fighting lions By seymour japlin Rome, March 11,
2010 Jean Baptiste thought that the air above Amsterdam was filled with doves,
too high to see but constantly in motion.
There are wings everywhere here, too, but not in the mind,
from the pigeons underfoot to the swallows that parry and dart like duelling musketeers.